Vale lifts force majeure on Mozambique coal shipments

World Coal, Thursday, 21 March 2013 09:30

Brazilian mining giant, Vale, has lifted force majeure on a number of its coal sales contracts in Mozambique. The company had declared force majeure in mid-February following heavy rainfall in Tete, Mozambique, which created serious challenges to the Linha do Sena railway, thus impacting shipments of metallurgical coal at approximately 500,000 t.

Adapted from press release by Jonathan Rowland.

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