Rio, the world’s second largest iron ore miner, shipped 118.6 million tonnes of the rock in the first six months of the year, a 4% improvement on 2012 numbers.
Sam Walsh, the company’s new CEO, says the figure marks an impressive performance.
In a second quarter trading update Rio says its 100 million tonne share of iron ore production at Pilbara was up 6% on a year ago.
