IRC expects Russia-China Amur bridge delay for iron ore sales

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Russian miner IRC said Friday itsiron ore shipments are yet to benefit from thecompletion of a 20 million mt/year railwaybridge over the Amur River to China, which hasbeen pushed back to 2019 from this year.The Russian side of the construction isgetting to the final stage, while a governmentreport identified technical issues that led todelays, and the Chinese side of the bridgeis almost complete, IRC said in a quarterlytrading update.