China’s newest port aims to come clean

Every 50 seconds, 38 tonnes of red-black Brazilian iron ore are scooped from the hull of the SG Prosperity, dumped on a conveyor and sped away to a yard.

Caofeidian, China’s newest and largest iron ore port, is open for business, just 19 months after workers began to convert an isolated sand spit in northeastern China into a massive port and industrial zone.