Australian steelmaker BlueScope halts blast furnace No. 6 at Port Kembla

Australian steelmaker BlueScope Steel has announced that its plant in Port Kembla in New South Wales has started to scale back production operations with the halting of its blast furnace No. 6.
 
The blast furnace in question was commissioned in 1996 with an investment of A$460 million. The halting of production operations at the blast furnace comes within the scope of the steelmaker's plans to end steel exports.