According to currently available information on planned coal port expansions, committed investment will
increase port capacity by an estimated 13 per cent over the next two years or so.
CBH Group has withdrawn its proposal to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to offer long - term agreements with exporters
on port capacity.
In the case of Newcastle, exports are running
below port capacity and bottlenecks appear to be concentrated in the rail network.
The Liverpool SuperPort development for freight, lead by private investors Peel with a # 300m in - river berth investment, will increase
port capacity from 700,000 containers per annum to three million, creating over 4,000 new jobs.
Currently, U.S. exports to Asia are somewhat constrained because there is
little port capacity for big coal ships on the U.S. West Coast, and because metallurgical coal, the high - heat content rock that is used for steelmaking, is mined exclusively on the U.S. East Coast.
John Eaves, chief executive officer of St. Louis, Missouri - based Arch Coal, which saw the bulk of its exports last year go to South Korea, told investors last month that the company would be proactive in working to gain
greater port capacity.
Whether U.S. exports to Asia expand will depend largely on the fate of controversial proposals to
expand port capacity in Bellingham and Longview, Washington, and Corpus Christi, Texas.
Please remember that the coal companies themselves say they need
WA port capacity to move their coal.
IRON ore producers in the state's Yilgarn region are not immune from the hurdles facing producers in the Pilbara and Mid West —
port capacity and access issues, transportation and infrastructure — but
The company said on Thursday it now has regulatory approval to take
its port capacity at Port Hedland to 290 million tonnes, and believes it can get there by the end of 2018 - 19.
In the case of the bulk commodities, growth in exports will require substantial growth in rail and
port capacity, much of which is under way or committed.
Apart from the features present in the CruzReader like the same e-Reader, web browser, accelerometer, video playback capability and
port capacity, CruzTablet will support multitasking and will also have a 2MP front - facing web camera.
India has only 8 % of India's
port capacity but both economies still growing so long term demand for port capacity looks obvious.