OPINION ABOUT: Fortescue Metals Group Limited is an Australian company among major worldwide producers of iron ore. It was incorporated in the year 2003. Fortescue's tenements are located throughout the resource rich Pilbara region of Western Australia. Customers are almost entirely referable to the Chinese area. Currently operated sites are (march 2014): Firetail and Kings (in the Solomon area), Cloudbreak and Christmas Creek (in the Chichester area) and Herb Elliott Port, while the Iron Bridge site is under construction. The company has also locally developed rail and marine transport facilities.