Japanese steelmaker JFE Steel Corporation has announced that Byerwen Coal Pty Ltd, a joint venture company in Queensland, Australia between JFE Steel and QCoal Pty Ltd, has shipped its first cargo of hard coking coal produced from the Byerwen Coal Handling and Preparation Plant (CHPP), bound for its West Japan Works.
Byerwen mine, which is located in the northeast of Queensland, has an annual coking coal production capacity of 3 million mt, with a planned expansion to 10 million mt per year.
Together with QCoal, JFE Steel will work to develop the mine and provide a stable, long-term supply of coking coal, which is expected to help reduce volatility in the coking coal market.
