Why FMG went trucking mad

FORTESCUE Metals Group chief operating officer Dino Otranto has come clean on why the iron ore miner went into the business of making trucks.

The Liebherr haul truck FFI is experimenting with.

Otranto told the Western Australian Mining Club that the move into truck manufacture came of necessity.

The original equipment manufacturers' decarbonisation timelines were well behind FMGs.

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