Cerrejon's Coal Exports, Output Fall in 2016

Production reached 32 million tonnes, down 3.6 percent from the previous year when output was 33.2 million tonnes. Cerrejon did not provide a reason for the decline.

Exports slipped 2.99 percent to 32.4 million tonnes from 33.4 million tonnes a year earlier.

 

Cerrejon is a joint venture between Australia-based BHP Billiton Ltd, London- and Johannesburg-based Anglo American Plc and Swiss-based Glencore Xstrata.

It operates in northern La Guajira province where it has a mine that produces thermal coal, a 150-kilometer train line and a sea port that can handle cargo of up to 180,000 tonnes.

Colombia, the world's fifth largest coal exporter, expects its output for 2016 to be 85 million tonnes.