{"id":154051,"date":"2025-11-22T17:18:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T17:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/154051\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T17:18:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T17:18:14","slug":"how-china-unlocked-guineas-simandou-to-reshape-the-global-iron-ore-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/154051\/","title":{"rendered":"How China unlocked Guinea&#8217;s Simandou to reshape the global iron ore trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/caixin\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caixin<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">World&#8217;s largest untapped high-grade deposit makes its long-awaited commercial debut<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/6\/7.jpeg\" alt=\"20251121 caixin main\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Simandou\u00a0mine\u2019s projected output of\u00a0up to annual 120 million tons\u00a0would make Guinea the world\u2019s fifth-largest iron ore exporter, behind only Australia, Brazil, China and India.<\/p>\n<p>LUO GUOPING, BAO ZHIMING and DENISE JIA, Caixin<\/p>\n<p>November 22, 2025 12:03 JST<\/p>\n<p id=\"main0-p-1\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">On an October morning along the Atlantic coast of West Africa, a bulk carrier named Winning Youth waited quietly in the port of Morebaya. It carried nearly 10,000 metric tons of blood-red earth, freshly extracted from deep inside Guinea&#8217;s remote southeastern mountains. The iron ore, loaded days earlier onto the first train to run on the Trans-Guinea Railway, had traveled hundreds of kilometers across ridges to reach this point. Soon it would begin an 11,000-nautical-mile (20,372 km) voyage around the Cape of Good Hope, across the Indian Ocean, through the Strait of Malacca and into the South China Sea. Its final destination: a steel mill in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caixin World&#8217;s largest untapped high-grade deposit makes its long-awaited commercial debut Simandou\u00a0mine\u2019s projected output of\u00a0up to annual 120&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,114,113,6246,86949,11523,61,60,21782,86950,82153,81299,1628,86948],"class_list":{"0":"post-154051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-global","12":"tag-guineas","13":"tag-how","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-iron","17":"tag-ore","18":"tag-reshape","19":"tag-simandou","20":"tag-trade","21":"tag-unlocked"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}