According to the statistics provided by
Brazil's National Union of the Industry of Extraction of Iron and Base Metals (Sinferbase), the country's
iron ore exports in April this year amounted to 18.64 million metric tons, increasing by 47.62 percent year on year.
In April,
iron ore exports of the world's largest
iron ore exporter
Vale accounted for 90.06 percent of the country's total
iron ore exports, amounting to 16.83 million metric tons, up 50.17 percent year on year.
Meanwhile,
Brazil's
iron ore exports in the first four months of 2010 rose by 27.62 percent year on year, reaching 81.97 million metric tons.
Vale's share in
Brazil's total
iron ore exports in the January-April period reached 89.18 percent and amounted to 73.1 million metric tons, climbing by 22.2 percent compared to the corresponding period of 2009.