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Re:Maersk installed 100-foot-tall rotating sails on one of i... by markdown on Friday August 31, 2018 @10:31PM (#17889805)
> The bottom left had things unprocessed ore, which have never made sense to ship.

China mines and ships bauxite from Fiji to China.

https://aluminiuminsider.com/bound-chinese-shores-fiji-ships...

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Re:Maersk installed 100-foot-tall rotating sails on one of i... by BurningFrog on Saturday September 01, 2018 @12:30AM (#17890215)
Without knowing much of anything: Bauxite is a bit special in that aluminum processing is extremely energy intensive, and I think the ore is often shipped to places with low electricity prices.

It is one of the bigger industries in Iceland: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/01/us/politics/american-comp...

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