{"id":562,"date":"2016-10-28T12:21:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T12:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/?p=562"},"modified":"2016-10-28T13:26:08","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T13:26:08","slug":"iron-ore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/2016\/10\/28\/iron-ore\/","title":{"rendered":"Iron Ore"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_580\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-580\" class=\"wp-image-580 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/11_1_2_iron_ore_trade_routes-1024x687.png\" alt=\"11_1_2_iron_ore_trade_routes\" width=\"1024\" height=\"687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/11_1_2_iron_ore_trade_routes-1024x687.png 1024w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/11_1_2_iron_ore_trade_routes-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/11_1_2_iron_ore_trade_routes-768x515.png 768w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/11_1_2_iron_ore_trade_routes-218x146.png 218w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/11_1_2_iron_ore_trade_routes-50x34.png 50w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/11_1_2_iron_ore_trade_routes-112x75.png 112w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/11_1_2_iron_ore_trade_routes.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-580\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>A :<\/strong> Seven Islands (Canada)<strong> B :<\/strong> Ponto do Madeira (Brazil) <strong>C :<\/strong> Tubarao (Brazil) <strong>D :<\/strong> Saldanha Bay (South Africa) <strong>E :<\/strong> Port Hedland (Australia \u2013 Dampier, to the south west of Port Hedland, is also a major iron ore export port)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>Iron Ore Trades &#8211;\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Brazil, north-western Australia and South Africa are among the major producers of iron ore that is moved in Capesize ships to China, Japan, Korea, Europe and numerous other industrialised countries that produce significant amounts of steel.<\/p>\n<p>From 2001 to 2008, a surge in Chinese steel production brought a wave of iron ore imports that demanded extensive use of Capesize ships, and that increased the daily charter rate of many of thee vessels to around $200\u00a0000 per day, creating a boom time for shipowners.<\/p>\n<p>Once the Chinese economy had slowed down, the demand for iron ore declined, as did the demand for ships, to the point that the charter rate in the first quarter of 2016 had averaged at $9\u00a0000 per day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iron Ore Trades &#8211;\u00a0Brazil, north-western Australia and South Africa are among the major producers of iron ore that is moved in Capesize ships to China, Japan, Korea, Europe and numerous other industrialised countries that produce significant amounts of steel. From 2001 to 2008, a surge in Chinese steel production brought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-11-1-2-4-trade-routes","category-iron-ore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}