With the bursting sound of a whistle, cargo ship Dongchen Qingdao set sail on June 18 from Qingdao in East China’s Shandong Province, carrying about 150 standard containers, including textiles, electronic products and precision parts and other goods. After a 36-hour journey, the ship arrived at Osaka South Port in Japan, marking the first successful .
Direct-reduced iron and its more transportable sister hot-briquetted iron have dallied in the wings of mainstream steelmaking as high-quality and low-residual furnace inputs for nearly 60 years. Suddenly the two have swept center stage for holding the key to steel decarbonization. Combined with hydrogen instead of traditional natural gas and linked with efficient furnaces powered .