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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Sumitomo Metal Ind says no plan to declare force majeure


Wed Mar 16, 2011 4:08am GMT

TOKYO, March 16 (Reuters) - Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd Japan's third-biggest steelmaker, said it had no plan to declare force majeure on input deliveries. The company has suspended operations of the two giant blast furnaces at its mainstay Kashima plant in Ibaraki prefecture after the quake and tsunami.

Damage at the Kashima port is not large, although some of the company's unloading cranes collapsed, a shipping company source said.(Reporting by Yuko Inoue; Editing by Joseph Radford,sourced:Reuters)

Tags : damage, Kashima Port, unloading cranes collapsed, shipping

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