First iron ore shipment leaves for Salzgitter

6/29/2012 1:46 AM EST

First iron ore shipment leaves for Salzgitter

On Thursday, MS Transosprey left the port of 
Hargshamn with the first load of ore after the 
reopening of the Dannemora iron ore mine. The cargo, 
comprising 17,000 tonnes of iron ore, will be 
unloaded in Hamburg for further transportation to 
Salzgitter Flachstahl's steelworks.

"The homogenisation store at Hargshamn is now up and 
running, ore deliveries are underway and operations 
are starting to generate sales revenue," says CEO 
Staffan Bennerdt.

The planned crude ore capacity at the sorting plant 
has now been achieved, while fine-tuning of the 
process equipment is still in progress. The annual 
rate of production will gradually be increased to one 
million tonnes during 2012.

The Press Release can be downloaded from the link 
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