Plans to tow Iron Chieftain from Port Kembla to China have been blocked

Glen Humphries
Updated March 15 2019 - 4:15pm, first published 4:00pm
Change of plan: The Iron Chieftain still moored at Port Kembla. After China banned its importation, the shipping line will now send it to Turkey. Picture: Adam McLean
Change of plan: The Iron Chieftain still moored at Port Kembla. After China banned its importation, the shipping line will now send it to Turkey. Picture: Adam McLean

China has blocked plans by the owners of the stricken vessel the Iron Chieftain to send it to one of its shipyards to be broken up into scrap.

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Glen Humphries

Glen Humphries

Senior journalist

I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. I cover the three local councils in the Illawarra for the Mercury, state and federal politics, as well as writing for the TV guide. If I'm not writing, I'm reading.

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