Newcastle: world’s biggest coal export port announces shift away from coal

Newcastle, the world’s largest coal export port, must “urgently” diversify its traffic, the port’s incoming chairman has said, warning that the “long-term outlook for coal is a threat to the port”.

The Guardian | December 17, 2017 - 5:35 pm
Categories: Energy
Newcastle: world’s biggest coal export port announces shift away from coal

Set up in 2010, GRail currently hauls around 40 million tonnes a year of Glencore’s coal production in the region to the Port of Newcastle. (Image: David Sheppard | Twitter)

Newcastle, the world’s largest coal export port, must “urgently” diversify its traffic, the port’s incoming chairman has said, warning that the “long-term outlook for coal is a threat to the port”.

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