
CSX closes WV office on weak coal volumes
US rail operator, CSX, is to close its administration offices in Huntingdon, West Virginia, on falling coal volumes from Central Appalachian coalfields.
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US rail operator, CSX, is to close its administration offices in Huntingdon, West Virginia, on falling coal volumes from Central Appalachian coalfields.

Liebherr Maritime cranes’ design, sales and customer service for mobile harbour cranes, reachstackers, ship cranes as well as offshore cranes will operate out of the company’s maritime production site in Rostock, Germany.

Rio Tinto announces 4Q15 results: hard coking and thermal coal production was in line with 2015 guidance, while semi-soft coking coal production was above the top end of the guidance range.

A fall in coal throughput at Port of Amsterdam helped to drag total transshipment down at the four North Seam Canal Area ports.

US LNG exports have been vaunted by the US coal industry as cause for rising US gas prices and therefore rising US coal demand. But this hope may be misplaced.

The US government halting new coal leases on federal land while it undertakes a comprehensive review of the federal coal programme has been met with discontent.

Port of Rotterdam saw coal throughput rise 1% in 2015 despite a fall in German thermal coal demand.

Peabody’s Wambo coal mine in New South Wales has reported a dam breach resulting in a discharge of sediment-laden water into the environment.

Bharat Heavy Electricals has commissioned a 520 MW coal-based thermal generating unit in Andhra Pradesh and a 660 MW super-critical unit in Uttar Pradesh.

EP UK Investments Ltd, a subsidiary of Energetický a prumyslový holding (EPH), has reached an agreement with RWE Supply & Trading GmbH on the purchase of Lynemouth Power Ltd.

The Port of Rotterdam has announced that goods throughput increased by a total 4.9% to 466.4 million in 2015.

Aboitiz Power Corp. has inaugurated its 300 MW baseload power plant in Davao City, Mindanao.