World’s largest iron ore exporter, Australia exported around 65.4 MnT iron ore (agglomerated and non-agglomerated both) in Apr’16. Exports drop down by 3% M-o-M, as it was 67.4 MnT in Mar’16.
Starting the Australian financial year 2016 i.e. from July’15 to June’16, the country exported around 651 MnT iron ore (till Apr’16).
The non- agglomerated iron ore and concentrates exports in the month of Apr’16 was registered at 65.1 MnT, moved up sharply by 10% over the previous year. Australia mainly exports fines and lumps to China. The agglomerated iron ore (pellets) exports remained at 0.3 MnT in Apr’16.
China- all time the largest importer of Australian iron ore
China imports more than 80% of Australian iron ore. In Apr’16, the country imported 54.5 MnT iron ore, slightly down by 2% M-o-M.
The other key countries who imported Australian iron ore were Japan (5.05 MnT), Korea (3.99 MnT), Taiwan (1.29 MnT), Indonesia (0.34 MnT) etc.
Australia’s Port Hedland exports around 80% of total iron ore exports
World’s largest bulk export terminal, Western Australia’s Port Hedland exports around 80% of the Australia’s bulk material.
Starting the Australian financial year 2016 (till Apr’16), total 372.6 MnT iron ore had been exported from Port Hedland.
Port Hedland has delivered a total throughput of around 446 MnT iron ore in 2015. BHP Billiton and FMG (Fortescue Metals Group) exports iron ore mainly from Australia’s Port Hedland.
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