Iron Ore news

Essar invests Rs 830 crore to expand and nearly double the iron ore handling capacity at the Vizag Terminal.

ESL Shipping renews its contract to transport iron ore from Baffin Island, Canada, to Bremen, Germany on its supramax vessel Arkadia.

Vale concludes the US$178 million sale of two very large ore carriers to Bocomm.

Rio Tinto to spend AUS$70 million on upgrading bulk handling facilities at East Intercourse Island in the Port of Dampier, Western Australia.

Feasibility study for new Rio Tinto iron ore development, the company’s Koodaideri iron ore in the Pilbara, Western Autralia, moves forward.

An AUMUND conveyor is to be installed in a new pellet production plant in the Province of Khorasan Razavi in Iran.

Rio Tinto reaches a historic milestone of shipping 5 billion t of iron ore from its operations in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.

Construction of “CAPE HAYATOMO” 250 000 DWT VLOC has been completed by Namura Shipbuilding Co. and delivered to K Line.

Baosteel Iron & Steel Co. places another order with SCHADE Lagertechnik for six combined portal stacker reclaimers in China.

Rio Tinto has reported production results for the Pilbara iron ore operations for 1Q17 are 3% lower than the same quarter in 2016.