Slowdown signs - Newcastle has smaller queues of ships
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Sunday, 15 Feb 2009
ABC News reported that in recent years, rail and port bottlenecks have been blamed for the ship queue blowing out to as many as 80 vessels.
However, in previous week’s Friday there were 21 vessels at anchor.
The Hunter Valley Coal Chain Logistics Team expects about 6.5 million tonnes of coal will go through the Port of Newcastle in February 2009. It said that, based on that forecast, the vessel queue should be down to 13 by the end of the month.
(Sourced from ABC News)
