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Conveyor alliance

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Two specialist bulk material handling technology firms, Martin Engineering and CCC Group, have formed a strategic alliance to design and man...

ABP inks biomass contract

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Associated British Ports (ABP) has appointed Graham Construction to undertake the design and construction of the new Immingham Renewable Fue...

Rio Tinto warning

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Rio Tinto’s CEO Sam Walsh has warned that a pit wall slide at Kennecott Utah Copper’s Bingham Canyon will “have a significant impact o...

Metals terminal for Ust-Luga

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After years of delays, United Metallurgical Company (OMK) is due to begin construction of a 6 Mtpa terminal at the Russian Baltic port of Us...

Deal unlocks Galilee Basin

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Queensland-based rail company Aurizon (formerly QR National) and Indian-Australian joint venture GVK Hancock have stolen a march on rivals b...

First step for new SA rail

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Work has begun on a new railway in the heart of South Africa’s coal industry. The line, running from Ermelo to the new Majuba coal-fired p...

End of Oz WA grain monopoly

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The historic loading monopoly at Western Australia’s grain ports has come to an end. Bunge Australia and China’s Beidahuang Group are by...

…and faces coal backlash

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Vancouver also has some coal-related projects in the pipeline. It recently approved an expansion project at Neptune Terminals to increase it...

NZ coal in crisis

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New Zealand’s stateowned coal miner Solid Energy is in crisis with its debt ballooning to NZ$389M. It made a loss of $40M in its last fina...

UK ports learn their ABC

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Last year the UK imported record volumes of coal, but this looks set to change drastically in the face of environmental concerns and thermal...

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