Shipping Industry quoted Macarthur Coal as saying that Queensland’s Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal is shipping at just 70% capacity resulting in large queues of ships.

According to Macarthur Coal, the Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal was shipping at a rate of 60 million tonne per annum despite an expansion of the port’s capacity to 85 million tonne per annum at the end of the 2008 financial year.

Macarthur Coal claims the ship queues at Dalrymple Bay remained at pre global financial crisis levels of more than 60 and it was waiting 25 days for a ship to load. The company said that the delay means miners could pay shippers up to USD 925,000 for a ship carrying USD 185,000 tonnes of coal.

(Sourced from Shippingindustry.com)