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Politics by Tony Raggatt Premium Content Subscriber only NORTH Queensland stands to bear the brunt of an escalating trade war with China with thousands of jobs and a $20bn coal export industry at risk. In a developing situation, China is said to have banned imports of Australian coal with much of those imports comprising coking coal mined in North Queensland. CFMEU mining division Mackay district president Stephen Smyth said labour hire firms were already laying off workers from BHP-owned mines though he could not say that was directly related to the Chin...

Premium Content Subscriber only Forty brand new ballast wagons arrived this week at Port of Mackay and are on their way to deliver one of Australia's largest track projects - the Carmichael rail network. Bravus Mining and Resources, formerly known as Adani, has begun laying the 200km railway line that will connect the Carmichael coal megamine to Abbot Point terminal. Australian-owned rail contractor Martinus is delivering critical civil and track works on the project and is deploying a number of their specialised rail equipment to site to undertake these works. The Martinus branded ballas...

Advertisement Bravus Mining and Resources has begun laying its 200 km railway line in Central Queensland this week and the track will be Australian-made. Bravus CEO, David Boshoff, said the materials for the track, including the girders, steel, sleepers and ballast were all produced in Australia, and the contractors building the railway were also all local. “We always said the Carmichael Project would create Australian jobs and benefit local businesses and this is yet another example of how we are delivering on our promise,” Boshoff said. “Our rail workers camps were built by Australian...

Investors are not buying into the myth of a coal industry ‘renaissance’ At the world’s biggest coal export port in England, no China-bound ships are waiting or scheduled to load before Christmas By Ben Smee and Ben Butler / The Guardian Three years ago, pictures of bulk carriers lined up off the coast of Mackay, Australia, were framed as evidence of a “renaissance” in the coal industry. There were more than 70 coal ships in the offshore gridlock in December 2017. This year, there were just 12 waiting — equaling a record low set at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the wor...

Premium Content Subscriber only The controversial Indian mining giant formerly known as Adani has begun laying the 200km railway line that will connect the Carmichael coal megamine to Abbot Point terminal. Bravus Mining and Resources CEO David Boshoff said the project's materials were made in Australia. "We always said the Carmichael project would create Australian jobs and benefit local businesses, and this is yet another example of how we are delivering on our promise," he said.     Looking lengthwise down the flash butt welding yard, with stacked rail on the right and gantry in the...