Alliance lowers 2019 thermal coal export guidance

Alliance Resource Partners (ARLP) reduced its guidance on 2019 thermal coal exports as lower international coal prices made booking sales more challenging. The US coal producer expects to export approximately 11mn short tons (10mn metric tonnes) of thermal coal this year, down by about 1mn st from expectations set in January. Alliance said it will […]

Arch Coal reports record coking coal margins in Q1

Arch Coal sold 20.62 million st of coal in the first quarter of 2019, down 13.9% from 23.95 million st in Q4 2018 and 12.8% from 23.66 million st sold in the year-ago quarter, due to a sharp drop in Powder River Basin shipments, but were offset by record margins in its coking coal segment, […]

Canada’s Ridley Terminals March coal exports jump to five-year high

Coal exports from the Ridley Terminal in Prince Rupert, British Columbia, reached a five-year high of 982,516 mt in March, up threefold from a two-year low of 313,756 mt in February and the most since 1 million mt was shipped out in December 2013, according to data from the Prince Rupert Port Authority. The total, […]

Federal judge holds off on decision for export terminal

The Millennium Bulk Terminals coal export project in Longview, Wash. Millennium Bulk Terminals A federal judge has decided to withhold judgment on the Millennium Bulk Terminals project until a state court decides on the future of the proposed coal export facility. U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington Senior Judge Robert Bryan yesterday stayed the lawsuit […]

Trump executive order could pave way for Washington coal port terminal

CHEYENNE — An executive order from President Donald Trump that could help pave the way for coal exports garnered praise from Wyoming leadership this week. But critics see it as a way to lessen local control over issues of water quality in favor of industry’s bottom line. One of the executive orders Trump signed Wednesday […]

Coal Exports: The Trump Administration and Western States Take Action to Open Ports for Shipment of Coal

On April 10, 2019, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order seeking to address permitting and policy obstacles preventing the export of coal and other energy resources through West Coast ports. New port facilities and improvements have been halted or delayed by state, local and tribal governments in California, Washington and Oregon.[1] The Executive Order […]

Daines, Barrasso reintroduce bill to jump start West Coast coal dock

WASHINGTON, D.C.- Republican Sens. Steve Daines and John Barrasso are reintroducing legislation to move forward a stalled Washington state port that would handle Montana and Wyoming coal. The bill aims to amend a section of the Clean Water Act, which would limit regulators’ review of projects. The Washington state Department of Natural Resources cited this […]

US miners Contura, Corsa see improved rail, ports aiding coking coal exports

US met coal miners Contura Energy and Corsa Coal cited gradual improvement in US rail and port performance over 2018, aiding exports, at the Eurocoke conference in Amsterdam this week. Flexibility at Corsa’s low-vol HCC mines in northern Appalachian to use both CSX and NS railways and several terminals aided trading and exports, and volume […]