Port Waratah Coal Services (PWCS) said its terminals shipped 5.8 million tonnes of coal in September, or about 69.59Mt annualised. The PWCS Carrington terminal moved 2.1Mt of this total with the balance of 3.7Mt being loaded at the PWCS Kooragang terminal.
In the last six months, PWCS has shipped 35.6Mt (or about 71.2Mt annualised), which is a 7.3% increase on the 33.19Mt shipped for the same period in 1999. As at the end of September the total tonnage of 5.8Mt was shipped in 71 vessels for an average shipment size of about 81,682t and an average turnaround time of 4.3 days.
Furthermore, at the end of September, two vessels awaited offshore and four were at the berth.
For the month PWCS received a total of 5.85Mt (or about 70.2Mt annualised). Of this total, 5.66Mt (or about 67.9Mt annualised) were received by rail. The PWCS-Carrington terminal received 1.92Mt of this total with the balance of 3.73Mt being received by rail at the PWCS-Kooragang terminal.
PWCS-Carrington terminal also received about 109,000t by road and about 86,000t by ship, while PWCS-Kooragang received tonnage only by rail.
At the end of September there was 243,088t (plus 11,209 remnant tonnes) remaining at PWCS-Carrington and 295,687t (plus 19,620 remnant tonnes) at PWCS Kooragang.
Of the 5.8Mt shipped the following tonnage went to the countries listed, followed by April-September tonnages:
* Japan: 2.8Mt of steaming and 1.02Mt of coking; year-to-date: 15.09Mt of steaming and 6.7Mt of coking.
* Taiwan: 380,197t of steaming and 194,436t of coking; year-to-date: 3.76Mt of steaming and 966,816t of coking.
* Korea: 447,176t of steaming and 187,916t of coking; year-to-date: 2.38Mt of steaming and 1.6Mt of coking.
* South America: nil steaming or coking; year-to-date: 948,584t of steaming and nil coking.
* Israel: 132,005t of steaming and nil coking; year-to-date: 905,303t of steaming and nil coking.
* India: 271,622t of steaming and nil coking; year-to-date: 598,731t of steaming and 141,363t of coking.
* Europe: nil steaming and nil coking; year-to-date: 423,064t of steaming and 260,925t of coking.
* Philippines: nil steaming and nil coking; year-to-date: 547,416t of steaming and nil coking.
* Malaysia: nil steaming and nil of coking; year-to-date: 460,703t of steaming and nil coking.
* China: 36,988t of steaming and nil coking; year-to-date: 348,516t of steaming and nil coking.
* Pakistan: nil steaming and 51,559t of coking; year-to-date: nil steaming and 152,666t of coking.
* Indonesia: 70,946t of steaming and nil coking; year-to-date: 132,661t of steaming and nil coking.
* Germany: nil steaming and nil coking; year-to-date: nil steaming and 126,881t of coking.
* New Caledonia: nil steaming and nil coking; year-to-date: 56,087t of steaming and nil coking.
* Total: 435Mt of steaming and 1.45Mt of coking; year-to-date: 25.65Mt of steaming and 9.96Mt of coking.
The above information reveals that 74.98% of the throughput in September was steaming coal and the balance (25.02%) was coking coal. Year-to-date, 72.03% of the total tonnage of 35.6Mt shipped is steaming and the balance (27.97%) was coking.
In September, the Central Queensland Coal Associates’ Hay Point Coal Terminal shipped 2.34Mt. This equates to about 28.05Mt on an annualised basis and an increase of about 6.4% on September 1999’s figure of 2.2Mt.
Hay Point has shipped about 20.48Mt in the calendar year to date, which equates to about 27.3Mt on an annualised basis. For comparison purposes, total shipments out of Hay Point for the 12 months to May 31 were 26.66Mt.
Hay Point typically services the mines of Goonyella, Peak Downs, Saraji, Norwich Park, Riverside, and South Walker Creek.
In addition, BHP said that in September it shipped 42,846t through Barney Point (Gladstone), 178,437t through Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal 249,296t to domestic power stations in Queensland and 581,765t from Gladstone's RG Tanna Coal Terminal.
In total, BHP shipped 3.39Mt from Queensland in August, which equates to about 40.68Mt annualised.
Major shareholders in the CQCA are BHP, with 52.1%, and QCT Resources – for which BHP/Mitsubishi subsidiary MetCoal has made a takeover bid – with 32.37%.
