Hay Point Coal Exports Fall After Queensland Floods

Bloomberg reported that shipments of coal from Australia’s Hay Point port dropped 14 percent in January from a month earlier as mines and rail networks recovered from flooding in Queensland.

The article states that:

Steelmakers may be forced to pay as much as 78 percent more for hard coking coal after floods in Australia curbed output in the biggest exporting nation for the fuel.

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