Daily iron ore price update (Port Hedland surge)

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Here’s the latest price update with futures at their highest levels n four months as speculators continue to react to moves by Beijing to tighten up on implementing steel production capacity cutbacks:

Meanwhile iron ore exports from the Port Hedland terminal are at 46.2Mt, up 5% year-on-year. More from the Mining Journal:

Total iron ore exports from Port Hedland for the whole of 2017 totalled 497.1Mt, rising 4% from the previous year, according to port data.

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