A sudden coronavirus lockdown could be the end of Port Kembla steelworks

Glen Humphries
April 13 2020 - 7:00am
COSTLY: An enforced shutdown of Port Kembla steelworks could cost BlueScope hundreds of millions of dollars.
COSTLY: An enforced shutdown of Port Kembla steelworks could cost BlueScope hundreds of millions of dollars.

An enforced shutdown of its Port Kembla steelworks could cost BlueScope hundreds of million of dollars - and may signal the end of steelmaking in the Illawarra.

Glen Humphries

Glen Humphries

Senior journalist

I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. I cover the three local councils in the Illawarra for the Mercury, state and federal politics, as well as writing for the TV guide. If I'm not writing, I'm reading.

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