Furthermore, the Italian Somalia economy was even improved by the salt industry. Indeed, in 1930, an Italian firm invested capital to exploit salt deposits in Hafun, then called "Dante". By 1933-34, the Hafun salt works were producing more than 200,000 metric tons of salt, most of which was exported to the Far East. It was one of the main salt facilities in the world and had a cable-transport system of 24 km. In 2014 there were made plans to revive this huge factory