Despite debilitating rail transport problems in the coal sector (see p4), high prices for other commodities mean that annual South African m...

South African coal rail volumes have fallen to critical levels, with Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) declaring force majeure on its take-or-pay ...

South Africa’s persistent rail problems have prompted mining firms to use trucks to transport coal to Richards Bay for export. According t...

The international economic sanctions imposed on the Kremlin for its brutal war in Ukraine are about to dramatically change Russia’s econom...

SAMSON Materials Handling recently supplied a STORMAJOR 2.0 to a Japanese company for handling coal at its chemical plant in Indonesia....

Mining groups and importers have voiced significant opposition to the ban announced on 31 December....

The mass, organised theft of railway equipment in South Africa has reached such a level that coal export volumes are now being affected....

Operator Grindrod has completed the feasibility study on its project to increase the capacity of Matola Coal Terminal (TCM) from 7.3 Mtpa to...

Gladstone’s RG Tanna Coal Terminal is to get a A$60M replacement coal loader – and it will be ‘home grown’....

South Africa’s energy minister has committed to developing new coal-fired power generation....

In the first nine months of 2021, the Port of Hamburg increased its seaborne cargo throughput by 2.9% to 95.8 Mt....

China can shape the dry bulk freight market in three ways in the coming months, according to SSY Research....

Tadotsu Shipyard Co Ltd, part of the Imabari Shipbuilding Group, has completed the 90,000 dwt bulk carrier LIN MIARAK and delivered it to K ...

Brazilian mining giant Vale has agreed to sell its Mozambican coal mine and railway to India’s Jindal Group for US$270M, plus ‘a 10-year...

Jindal also announced that it plans to develop a coal mine in Botswana with a production capacity of 4.5 Mtpa....