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Four new cargoes boosts Fe scrap into Turkey to $400/t

August 30, 2010 - 00:00 GMT

Turkish mills booked at least four deep-sea cargoes for delivery in September and October last week, boosting prices as high as $400 per tonne cfr, market participants said.

Turkish mills booked at least four deep-sea cargoes for delivery in September and October last week, boosting prices as high as $400 per tonne cfr, market participants said. The highest booking was for US material. It included 17,000 tonnes of...

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