It was only five years ago, but it feels like a different era. Roger Agnelli, the then chief executive of Vale, the Brazilian mining company, had just taken delivery of the first of an order of 35 Valemax ships, the biggest dry bulk carriers ever built. The vessels, bought primarily to ship iron ore to a voracious China, were so large that each one could carry iron ore sufficient for the steel to build the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco three times over.
那只是短短5年前，卻感覺像是另一個時代。時任巴西礦業公司淡水河谷(Vale)執行長的羅傑•阿涅利(Roger Agnelli)，剛剛收取35艘Valemax貨船訂單中的首批貨船。Valemax貨船是有史以來建造的最大幹散貨船。購買這些貨船主要是爲了將鐵礦石運送到需求旺盛的中國，它們的載貨量十分龐大，每一艘貨船運送的鐵礦石所製成的鋼鐵，都足以建造3座舊金山金門大橋。
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