Shanghai: The long term dispute between Brazilian mining conglomerate Vale and the Chinese government on the latter’s access right seems to have ended, with Vale Malaysia, one of Vale’s giant ore carriers, docking at Lianyungang Port on Monday.

The 400,000dwt VLOC is said to have carried around 200,000 tons of iron ore and docked at Lianyungang port in Jiangsu province after it unloaded some 170,000 tons of iron ore at Subic Bay in the Philippines.

An official from Vale’s China operation couldn’t reveal more details on this matter, but he told SinoShip News that Lianyungang port had been one of the most proactive ports to receive Vale’s VLOCs.

Lianyungang port also wants to keep a low profile and refused to comment.

Vale’s chartered vessel Berge Everest docked at Dalian port in December 2011 without official government permission, but there hadn’t been any further Vale VLOCs docking at Chinese ports since then until this week.