Ivory Coast resumes cocoa exports after crisis

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Ivory Coast resumes cocoa exports after crisis

Source: Reuters

Ivory Coast resumed cocoa bean exports on Sunday more than three months after they were halted by the country's political conflict, officials and a Reuters witness said.

Workers were loading beans onto a ship owned by Bollore Africa Logistics from a warehouse brimming with cocoa sacks.

"This is the first boat. It arrived on May 7 and this morning we started operations," said Kouame Kouassi, a Bollore official. "We have 1,796 tonnes (on this boat) and there's another boat coming at a later date to load 9,000 tonnes."

Read more: http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE74800X20110509

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