RE:Australia is a friendly nation.
by mahabodhi on Jun 09, 2008 07:26 PM Permalink
@mumbai australians r angry with MMS that's true !But still they supply and India wants ,though it has vast resources of coal in India !But SAIL and all other steel manufactures including even power plants insisits and r asking for australian Coal !Why Read " SAIL imports the bulk of its requirements from Australia. Australian hard coal is considered best suited for SAIL's purpose. But then SAIL also imports some quantities from countries like New Zealand and Canada. This coal, used mainly for blending purpos e, has a low ash but high sulphur content. Only this month, about 40,000 tonnes of soft coal were imported - 20,000 tonnes each through Paradip and Haldia - for Bokaro steel plant. Part of it is being used for blending purpose and part for coal dust inj ection process in the blast furnace.
Coal available from indigenous sources suffers from varying quality, so that if the production of a particular colliery does not conform to the stipulated quality norms, supplies have to be arranged from other sources. This calls for reworking of the tra nsportation matrix, which is difficult. The Railways, too, has its own limitations and cannot be expected to change the movement programme at short notice.
