In April this year, Brazilian miner Vale's iron ore export volume totaled 24.91 million mt, up five percent compared to April 2017 and increasing by 0.3 percent compared to March, according to Brazil's National Union of the Industry of Extraction of Iron and Base Metals (Sinferbase). In the January-April period of the current year, Vale's iron ore exports decreased by 2.1 percent year on year to 97.4 million metric tons.
Meanwhile, in April this year Vale's iron ore sales in its domestic market amounted to 1.4 million mt, increasing by 29.5 percent year on year and down by 5.3 percent month on month. In the first four months of this year, Vale's iron ore sales in its domestic market totaled 5.55 million mt, rising by 25 percent as compared with the same period last year.