PhotoBlog.MSNBC. Tugs move the damaged the Vale Beijing, a 361-meter-long vessel that is loaded with 384,300 tonnes of iron ore, at Ponta da Madeira Port near the northern Brazilian city of Sao Luis, Dec. 6, 2011. The vessel had ruptured its hull and has a leak in a ballast tank, operator STX Pan Ocean said. Tugs moved the damaged Vale Beijing, the world's largest iron-ore carrier, from its berth in Brazil for repairs, opening space for other ships at a port responsible for about 10 percent of global iron ore exports.
