MANGANESE ORE FINES IMSBC schedule
The Group A fines schedule set against the Group C MANGANESE ORE schedule, the particle size division, and the carriage, testing and hold requirements.
MANGANESE ORE FINES is a Group A individual schedule in the IMSBC Code, and its coarse counterpart MANGANESE ORE is Group C. The pair is one of several in the Code where the same commodity appears twice and the group letter turns on particle size and drainage rather than on the material itself.
The trade runs principally from South Africa, Australia, Gabon and Brazil to Chinese steel mills, often on geared tonnage loading at berths with limited weather protection. The full article will set out the schedule, the transportable moisture limit determination and the applicable test method, the hold preparation and weather precautions, and the practical question of which of the two schedules a given parcel falls under.