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Metro Mining Limited, an Australia-based exploration and mining company, reported the company's bauxite shipments from its Bauxite Hills Mine in Queensland totaled 780,000 wet metric tonnes in September, rising by 8% compared to the preceding month and by 35% from the same month a year ago. The figure hit a new monthly high.

In the same month, Metro Mining also hit a daily mining volume record of 32,617 wet metric tonnes, and it also achieved a new total loading time record for ocean-going vessels, with a 200,000-ton vessel completed in nine days.

In the third quarter of this year, the company’s bauxite shipment amounted to 2.13 million tons, with the deliveries in the first three quarters totaling 3.65 million tons. Such performance was in line with the company’s annual shipping target of 6 million to 6.4 million tons.