JOHANNESBURG, April 25 (Reuters) – Coal of Africa,
whose thermal and coking coal operations are all in South
Africa, has moved its first production destined for the export
market.
About 1,500 tonnes of thermal coal from its Vele Colliery in
the Limpopo Province is heading by rail for Mozambique, where it
will be shipped and sold to Asian markets.
Coal of Africa said the exercise was a test of state
logistics before it pushes ahead with weekly loadings on the
existing line.
Production at Vele resumed in December 2011 and the colliery
is expected to produce 2.7 million tonnes of run-of-mine
production yielding around 1 million tonnes of saleable coking
coal per annum.
(Reporting by Sherilee Lakmidas, editing by Ed Stoddard)
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