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Saturday, November 12, 2011

China coal transport capacity to reach 2 billion tonnes in 2011

Saturday, 12 Nov 2011

China railway transport capacity of coal will reach 2.27 billion tonnes in 2011 accounting for 60% of the country’s total coal production.

The projected figure represents an annual growth rate of 13.5% on average from 1.17 billion tonnes transported in 2004.

The Ministry of Railway has been expanding transport capacity of the fuel in an effort to secure coal supply in the country over the past years.

China railway transported 1.88 billion tonnes of coal in January through October this year representing a YoY increase of 13.4% or 229 million tonnes that was 5.3 percentage points higher than the country total railway transport capacity.

(source: steelhome)

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