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Volvo Construction Equipment’s 2Q15 revenue is up by 5% and profitability sees an 80% rise despite major declines in key markets.

A round-up of some of this week’s key news items from the international coal industry, from coal production and development to the latest coal mine developments.

Christian Pfeiffer, Germany, signs contract to deliver and construct two coal mills, both rated for outputs of 35 tph of coal, for Amreyah Cement Co. in Egypt.

Two new market members from Germany and India join the globalCOAL online coal trading platform.

India’s imports of thermal coal have jumped by almost a quarter in the three months to June 2015.

MacGregor has secured an order to supply an equipment package for two 38 000 DWT bulk carriers from China.

Queen Elizabeth II has been shown scale models of a minerals processing plant and Warman slurry pump at the Weir Advanced Research Centre in Glasgow.

Eagle Bulk Shipping’s Board of Directors has appointed Gary Vogel as the company’s CEO, effective 1 September 2015.

Monthly scrapping rates in the dry bulk shipping sector averaged 3.3 million DWT in 1H15 – well above last year’s 1.3 million DWT.

A new biomass terminal has been planned for the Port of Liverpool to facilitate a large-scale decarbonisation project at Drax power plant.

Superior Industries has chosen Vega-Pro as its conveying and washing dealer throughout the Russian Federation.

Sharyn Gol has completed commissioning of its new coal wash plant in Sharyn Gol city, Darkhan province, Mongolia and its agreement for transporting the washed coal to South Korea.

The dry bulk shipping market has been hit by the dramatic slowdown in Chinese coal imports with the BDI at historically low levels

Colombia court further restricts use of main coal railway.

Due to difficulties in the domestic mining industry, Ukraine's biggest power producer and major coal miner DTEK will become a coal importer.