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ARCHIVED - Heavy snowfall in Spain brought sales boom for the salt pans of San Pedro del Pinatar
Sales are up by 50 per cent this month after the historic snowfall 10 days ago
The historic snowfall which hit Madrid and other parts of central Spain almost two weeks ago is still causing severe problems in and around the national capital, with banks of snow and ice lining roads and rubbish not having been collected in some areas since the arrival of Storm Filomena, but in the salt production centre in San Pedro del Pinatar the extreme winter weather further north has meant nothing but good news!
Salt sales in San Pedro are reported to have been boosted by 50 per cent as extra supplies are purchased to help clear the roads of Madrid and other provinces further north, and so far approximately 7,000 tons have been delivered from the flats at the northern end of the Mar Menor. 90 per cent of these sales have been to Madrid and with demand still high the usual sales level of around 400 tons a day is being doubled.
As a result, some employees are working double shifts and the salt flats have been unusually active over the last fortnight.
In a typical year around 80,000 tons of salt are produced in San Pedro del Pinatar, generally being extracted in September and October and then distributed over the winter and throughout the year.