{"id":19874,"date":"2026-08-21T18:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T18:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/?p=19874"},"modified":"2026-08-23T18:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T18:22:15","slug":"global-iron-ore-falls-as-coke-costs-squeeze-steelmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/global-iron-ore-falls-as-coke-costs-squeeze-steelmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"GLOBAL | Iron ore falls as coke costs squeeze steelmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollerdie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Steel-Metal-Market.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5297624215064964;width:377px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\">Seaborne iron ore prices declined as higher coke prices and weak steel demand reduced mills\u2019 buying interest. China\u2019s Dalian iron ore futures fell to 707 yuan per tonne, while apparent steel consumption dropped by 15% week on week. Mills increasingly preferred cheaper portside material over seaborne cargoes. However, the Australian lump premium reached a record $0.2700 per dmtu.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"567\" height=\"189\" src=\"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAREX-NEWS-AGENTS-LOGO1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18968\" style=\"width:134px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAREX-NEWS-AGENTS-LOGO1.jpg 567w, https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAREX-NEWS-AGENTS-LOGO1-400x133.jpg 400w, https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAREX-NEWS-AGENTS-LOGO1-430x143.jpg 430w, https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAREX-NEWS-AGENTS-LOGO1-150x50.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seaborne iron ore prices declined as higher coke prices and weak steel demand reduced mills\u2019 buying interest. China\u2019s Dalian iron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Author","author_link":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/author\/ghazizadeh\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/category\/general\/\" rel=\"category tag\">General<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Seaborne iron ore prices declined as higher coke prices and weak steel demand reduced mills\u2019 buying interest. China\u2019s Dalian iron","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19875,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19874\/revisions\/19875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}