Vale resumes iron ore railway transportation after 12-hour halt on Monday

Vale said on Tuesday iron ore transportation was halted on Monday for over 12 hours at its Carajas railway due to protests on the line.

According to the iron ore producer, the railway operations were interrupted between 6:30 am and 6:50 pm local time on Monday in the city of Maraba in the state of Para. Vale added its cargo railway has resumed operations.

Vale didn’t inform the quantities of the commodity it couldn’t transport due to the halt in the railway’s operations.

The Carajas railway has some 892 kilometers of extension and connects Vale’s Carajas mine to a port in the city of Sao Luis in the state of Maranhao. The Carajas is Vale’s most important railway. It transports some 120 million mt of iron ore per year and some 350,000 passengers per year.