The Australian port, the world’s largest iron ore export facility, shipped out a total of 36.1mt last month.

However, the figure was down 7% from last month’s all time high of 36.1 Mt, according to Port Authority statistics.

Shipments of iron ore to China were 29.2mt, 27.5% up on the 22.9m seen in June 2013, but down 2.3% on the record 29.9mt