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Record drop in rail coal traffic

RAIL FREIGHT

11 December 2015
 

Coal traffic has suffered its biggest drop since quarterly statistics began in the 1990s, says the Office of Rail and Road’s latest rail freight report.

Coal traffic lifted dropped 48.9% in the second quarter to 4.6 million tonnes (2014-15, Q2: 9.0 million tonnes), and coal traffic moved fell 61.6% to 0.51 billion tonne-kilometres (2014-15, Q2: 1.34 billion tonne-kilometres).

The drastic fall has been attributed to a number of factors:  the shift to bio-mass; a mild winter; power...

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