In the week ended September 9, coal shipments from the Port of Newcastle in Queensland, the coal producing state of Australia, totaled 2.37 million mt, according to Newcastle Port Corporation. The figure constitutes a decrease of 30 percent compared to the previous week ended September 2, in which a week-on-week increase of 23 percent in coal shipments had been observed.
In the September 1-9 period, Newcastle port exported 2.86 million mt of thermal and coking coal, while the port authority has forecast that Newcastle port will ship a total of 12.45 million mt for the whole of September.
Anglo American, Peabody Energy, Rio Tinto and Xstrata are some of the larger exporters to ship coal from Newcastle port.