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He remembers a hotel lobby in the small, blue-collar port town of Arlington, Ore.
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Tied up in port sit two massive iron ore transporters carrying the raw material for the world's car making industry.
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Port Hedland had closed three main iron ore ports in the Pilbara region, the world's largest source of iron ore, as the cyclone approached.
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To please officials in the city of Haicheng, close to Xiyang Village, Mr Zhou abandoned a plan to build a steel factory in the southern port of Beihai, where there would be ready access to ore shipped from Australia.
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By 2015 Ponta da Madeira, Vale's private port, will be Brazil's largest by tonnage, exporting 230m tonnes of iron ore a year.
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Vale docked the first of the fleet, the Berge Everest, at China's Port of Dalian in late December, with a delivery of 350, 000 tons of iron ore.
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