Subscribe to RSS feedTownsville port’s iron ore to be first in 120 years
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David Sexton
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Aug 05, 2010 09:42 AM
FOR THE first time in about 120 years a shipment of iron ore has left the Australian eastern seaboard, this time bound for China.
The shipment from the port of Townsville is on its way to China’s Beilun Port near Shanghai on board Maritime Cuhee.
It is the first of two trial shipments to Beilun Port, both weighing about 50,000 tonnes.
The ore cargo...
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