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LKAB confirms shipment to Murmansk

Did LKAB deliver a cargo of iron ore to Murmansk? Or did it not? The news about the cargo ship WILSON NICE shipment to Murmansk made a stir in the LKAB headquarters. «This is false information, we have no Russian customers», Anders Lindberg, LKAB’s Manager of Corporate Communications, said in a tweet. «We have never delivered ore to Russia», he underlined in an email. The Barents Observer subsequently removed its published story about the deal. Then, on Friday morning, the LKAB Communications Manager made a u-turn. «A subsidiary to LKAB delivered a small amount of special products for use in pipe coating, not for steel making, » another tweet from Anders Lindberg said. He specified that «LKAB has no Russian steel producers as customers». The flurry followed information from the Murmansk Sea Port about the «Wilson Nice» and its delivery of 8,000 tons of iron ore from Narvik to Murmansk. The ore had been extracted in one of the biggest fields in northern Sweden, the port said in a press release. The same information was confirmed by shipping company Wilson, the owner of the «Wilson Nice». «It is a test shipment», Dmitry Durkin, a local representative of the company, told the Barents Observer. «If it proceeds successfully, shipments might start on a regular basis, it is an issue of price and quality», he maintains. «It all depends on the buyer». Durkin later confirmed that the shipment papers specifically mentions LKAB.