Platts reported that demand is up for coal from the Gladstone port in Australia.

The market news is quoted as saying:

Gladstone port has the capacity to ship around 70 million mt/year of thermal and coking coal exports from its Barney Point and RG Tanna coal terminals, but severe flooding in early 2011 curtailed production at a number of its Queensland-based coal producer customers.

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