In March this year, Brazilian miner Vale's iron ore export volume totaled 25.26 million mt, up 7.7 percent compared to March 2015 and rising by 3.4 percent compared to February, according to Brazil's National Union of the Industry of Extraction of Iron and Base Metals (Sinferbase). In the first three months of the current year, Vale's iron ore exports increased by 10.9 percent year on year to 71.29 million metric tons.
Meanwhile, in March this year Vale's iron ore sales in its domestic market amounted to 1.21 million mt, increasing by 31.8 percent year on year and up by 7.2 percent month on month. In the January-March period of this year, Vale's iron ore sales in its domestic market totaled 3.49 million mt, rising by 13.4 percent as compared with the same period last year.