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Shipments from US ports totalled 5.9 million tons, a decrease of 6% compared with a year ago.
Included in that total were 570,000 tons shipped to Quebec City in Canada for final delivery overseas.
Loadings at Canadian ports rose by almost 30%.
Between January and July, iron ore shipments stood at 32.1 million tons, an increase of 6.5% compared with a year ago.
