In the week ended July 15, coal shipments from the Port of Newcastle in Queensland, the coal producing state of
Australia, totaled 2.86 million mt, according to Newcastle Port Corporation. The figure constitutes a decrease of 3.9 percent compared to the previous week ended July 8, in which a week-on-week increase of 27.5 percent in coal shipments had been observed.
In the period of July 1-15, Newcastle port exported 6 million mt of thermal and
coking coal, while the port authority forecasts that Newcastle port will ship a total of 12.8 million mt for the whole of July. In July 2012, Newcastle port had exported almost 12.3 million mt of thermal and
coking coal.
Anglo American, Peabody Energy, Rio Tinto and Xstrata are some of the larger exporters to ship coal from Newcastle port.