Rio Tinto has celebrated the shipment of 8 billion tonnes1 of iron ore to global markets from the Pilbara region, 60 years after the company’s first shipment set sail from Western Australia for Japan.The milestone shipment departed from Cape Lambert po…
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The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) has celebrated the keel-laying of its seagoing technology platform at the FSG Shipyard in Flensburg.The ship, named Modularis, will serve as a floating laboratory for innovati…
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Three supertankers were crossing the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday carrying oil bound for Asian markets, after waiting in the Gulf for more than two months with 6 million barrels of Middle East crude on board, while another was entering, shipping…
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The world’s second-largest gold miner, Agnico Eagle, is counting on barge transport through the Northwest Passage to keep the cost of producing gold in its Hope Bay Mine under $1,000 per ounce, Agnico Eagle CEO Ammar Al-Joundi told Reuters,…
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