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This year’s Dry Cargo Conference & Exhibition took place at Ahoy Rotterdam in the Netherlands, welcoming attendees from the dry bulk handling sector around the world.
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This year’s Dry Cargo Conference & Exhibition took place at Ahoy Rotterdam in the Netherlands, welcoming attendees from the dry bulk handling sector around the world.

South32 reports a small rise in Illawarra metallurgical coal production and a slight decline in South Africa thermal coal production for the September 2015 quarter.

Caterpillar’s Resource Industries business has announced a quarterly loss of US$68 million as sales fell 17% in 3Q15. Overall, the company recorded sales of US$11 billion

Elgin Equipment Group has formed the Elgin Separation Solutions division to focus on the coal and mineral processing industries.

BHP Billiton’s 3Q15 production of thermal and metallurgical coal was in line with 3Q14.

Rio Tinto’s production of hard coking coal jumped 10% in the first nine months of the year, while thermal coal output was hit by bad weather in the Hunter Valley to finish 6% down.

Hexagon Mining has launched MineSight QAQC for validating and determining the precision and accuracy of field samples.

Universal Coal is set to increase its thermal resource base by 25% from the acquisition of the Arnot South project from Exxaro.

Vale’s coal production dropped 12.3% y/y in 3Q15 following the stoppage of production at two of its Australian coal mines in 2014.

Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Co. selects Aquatech to design, engineer and supply a Zero Liquid Discharge plant for its coal-to-liquid (CTL) fuels conversion project, as well as supervise install and commission the ZLD plant.

The Boot-Lift® Railcar Connector from Martin Engineering improves the speed and safety of connecting a hopper car to under-track conveying systems, preventing the loss of material to wind or contamination.

The Springvale workforce returned to work on 16 October.