SEOUL: South Korea’s Posco said it would pull out of a US$5.3bil steel mill development in India’s Karnataka state, but will proceed with another US$12bil project billed as the country’s largest foreign direct investment.
Posco said in a regulatory filing that it had agreed to cancel the project with the government of southern Karnataka state because of delays in receiving iron ore mining rights and opposition from residents which had held back land acquisition.
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