Australia's Fortescue Metals Group Ltd. shipped 1.9 million tonnes of iron ore from its operations in the Pilbara region of Western Australia in January, Executive Director Graeme Rowley said on Thursday. This compared to 2.67 million tons of ore in December, according to the Port Headland Port Authority. Shipments since the end of January have taken the year to date shipments to 2.4 million tons.
The fall in shipments is being blamed on a maintenance outage as well as a brief outage following the death of a worker.
Fortescue is targeting monthly production of 3.6 million metric tons and expects to produce 23.8 million metric tons of ore in the second half of the financial year ending June 30, bringing output for the year to 39 million metric tons.
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