Rotterdam on the slab with ThyssenKrupp deal

From 2009,the steel mill it is currently building in Brazil will ship 2.1m tons of steel slabs to Europe each year, to be processed into flat steel products at the company’s sites in Germany.

These slabs will be transhipped at Rotterdam at a new terminal where handling will be controlled be magnets; a first, the company claims.

Onward transportation of the slabs to the production sites of ThyssenKrupp Steel in Duisburg and Bochum will be by barge and rail.

However, ThyssenKrupp Steel steel exports for overseas destinations will continue to be handled via the port of Antwerp.