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Port Hedland

Port · Australia

Port Hedland

The highest-tonnage bulk export port in the world.

Twilights of Port Hedland, Western Australia, 2023, 03 · Kgbo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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What happens here

Almost everything that leaves here is iron ore, loaded from trains up to 2.5 km long onto ships bound for Asian steel mills.

In and out

Goes in

Iron Ore

Comes out

Outputs for this site are not itemised in the atlas.

Journeys that pass through this plant

Pilbara iron ore to Chinese steel The largest material flow on Earth: dig it, crush it, screen it, and put it on a boat.

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