This can only help in reducing costs, which gives even more weight to the comments Chairamn Dr Ian Burston made and which were reported on page 1 of the Business section of The Australian last weekend:
"I've done my figures on getting it onto the ships...less than US$50/tonne. If IO price goes down to $80, not gonna worry me. 20 mil tonne/year @$30/t is a profit of $600m".