Arrivals of the steelmaking raw material were 75.08 million tonnes last month, Reuters' calculations showed, below the 83.75  million tonnes brought in May and down from the 83.24 million tonnes in June 2018.

For the first-half of the year, the world's biggest iron ore consumer brought in 499 million tonnes of ore, down 5.9% from the same period in 2018, the customs data showed.