The largest German steel producer ThyssenKrupp Steel has announced that the Norwegian-flagged ore freighter Berge Stahl has completed its two hundredth journey from Brazil to the Netherlands.
Around two-thirds of the iron ore ThyssenKrupp Steel uses in its Duisburg blast furnaces comes from Brazil, mostly shipped by the Berge Stahl ,the biggest bulk carrier in the world, from the Marítimo de Ponta da Madeira terminal of the mining company Vale in Brazil to Europoort/Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
Built in 1986, the Berge Stahl, which measures 342 m in lenght and 63.5 m in width and has a cargo capacity of around 360,000 mt, makes ten journeys a year, and has to date transported a total of around 71 million mt of ore for ThyssenKrupp Steel and Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann.