Major iron ore miners’ Q3 shipments up 2% on year, Vale set for strong Q4

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Singapore—Iron ore shipments from major producers Vale, Rio Tinto, BHP, Fortescue Metals Group and Roy Hill, along with exports from South Africa’s Saldanha Port, hit a seven-quarter high of 308.2 million mt in the July-September quarter, according to analysis using S&P Global Platts’ trade flow software cFlow. Total September quarter exports were up 3.1% from the previous quarter and up 2% year on year, and took the January-September total to 872.81 million mt, 1.7% higher than in the same period a year earlier, the analysis showed.