Kumba预测铁矿石价格降回落

    南非矿山Kumba首席执行官近日称2014上半年铁矿石价格降持稳，而后半年会有所回落。CEO Norman Mbazima解释“过去的两周，矿价一直在缓慢下行，但是目前已有企稳的迹象，我们预测2014上半年将维持这种平稳态势。之后，我认为供应量的上升会导致下半年矿价有所回落。

    同时，Kuma也表示会力保自己和物流公司Transnet起冲突的开采权，这部分开采权将决定今年Sishen项目上半年的增产。

    Kumba预计总产量将从2013年的3100万吨提升至2014年的3500万吨。

原文：

Cape Town - The chief executive of South Africa's Kumba Iron Ore expects iron ore prices to remain stable in the first half of 2014 and then soften in the second half, as more supply from large producers comes on stream, he said on Tuesday.

“In the last two weeks prices have been moderating fairly rapidly but we think they have stabilised now and we expect that stability to continue for the first half of the year,” chief executive Norman Mbazima told Reuters in an interview.

“After that, I think that the (growing) supply from the majors will start to soften the prices again.”

Kumba, a division of Anglo American, also said it expects to secure mining rights over logistics group Transnet's rail properties, which are important for the expansion of its large Sishen mine in Northern Cape province, in the first half of this year.

Kumba, the major contributor to Anglo American's profit, is battling technical constraints which curbed production at Sishen mine and is aiming to expand its output from 31 million tonnes in 2013 to 35 million in 2014. - Reuters

http://www.iol.co.za/business/companies/kumba-sees-iron-ore-price-fall-1.1641784

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