Vale recently completed a trial run for its Valemax ships, the world's biggest bulk carriers, by entering Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation's Kashima steelworks port. This is the third of ...

Vale recently announced the signing of a cooperation agreement with China Ocean Shipping Company (Cosco) for strategic cooperation in iron ore shipping. As per this agreement, Vale has agreed to sell ...

Brazil's Vale's first of 35 mega-carriers capable of carrying 400,000 tonnes of dry bulk cargo embarked on its maiden voyage to Dalian, China in May 2011, but the 362-metre-long and 65 metre wide ...

Vale SA of Brazil said it has increased access of its Valemax iron ore carriers to Asian ports. The company even docked one of its ships in China where a ban on the giant vessels has been in effect ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, July 1 (Reuters) - Brazil's Vale SA said it has sold three of its giant "Valemax" iron ore ships to a group led by Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, continuing efforts to unload ...

Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp, Japan's biggest steelmaker, may start talks on a contract to transport iron ore from Brazilian miner Vale on Valemax ships, the world's biggest bulk carriers, to ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, April 25 (Reuters) - Brazil's Vale SA said it has increased access of its "Valemax" iron ore carriers to Asian ports and has even docked one of its ships in China where a ban on the ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Shipping news every morning. The Chinese government has lifted a three-year ban on huge iron ore carriers that had forced Brazil’s Vale ...

Vale SA, the Brazilian miner building a fleet of the world’s largest iron-ore carriers, said it will receive as many as four additional new vessels by year-end. Vale will receive its second ...

Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp., Japan’s top steelmaker, will consider using more Valemax carriers to receive ore shipments to lower expenses and mitigate the impact of rising raw material prices.

Brazilian iron ore mining giant Vale is in talks with the Alcantara Port Terminal on Brazil’s northern coast to increase iron ore shipments to China – a move that aligns with China’s recent attempts ...

A massive bulk carrier operating under contract for Brazilian mining giant Vale SA arrived at the Chinese port of Dalian this week in a sign that China may be reconsidering earlier refusals to allow ...