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Cerrejon Coal Company states that in 2009 56% pf its production was exported to Europe, 17% to North America, 12% to Central and South America and 15% to "other destinations".<ref>Cerrjon Coal Company, [http://www.cerrejoncoal.com/secciones/CERWEB/ENGHOME/MENUPRINCIPAL/EXPORTACION/VOLUMENEXPORTACIONES/seccion_HTML.html "Exports volume"], Cerrjon Coal Company website, accessed June 2010.</ref> Since 1985, Cerrejon Coal Company has exported produced 444.9 million tonnes.<ref>Cerrjon Coal Company, [http://www.cerrejoncoal.com/secciones/CERWEB/ENGHOME/MENUPRINCIPAL/EXPORTACION/RESULTADOSEXPORTACION/seccion_HTML.html "Export results"], Cerrjon Coal Company website, accessed June 2010.</ref>
Coal from Cerrejon is marketed by [[CMC Coal Marketing Company]], a company owned equally by BHP Billiton plc, Anglo American plc and Xstrata plc. CMC Coal Marketing Company has offices is headquartered in Dublin and , Ireland but also established a subsidiary office in Atlantain 2005.<ref>Cerrjon Coal Coampany, [http://www.cerrejoncoal.com/secciones/CERWEB/ENGHOME/MENUPRINCIPAL/EXPORTACION/MERCADEO/seccion_HTML.html "Marketing"], Cerrjon Coal Company website, accessed June 2010.</ref> <ref>[http://www.cmc-coal.ie/index.html " In February 2011 BHP Billiton's website stated that coal from Cerrejon was "exported largely to Europe, but also to the USA and South America."<ref name="Cerr">
==Expansion==
:"Construction commenced in CY2011 and the project handled its first coal in the December 2013 quarter.The port expansion associated with the Cerrejón P40 project is currently being commissioned, although operational issues are expected to constrain capacity to approximately to 35 Mtpa (100 per cent basis) in the medium term. At 30 June 2014, the project was 94 per cent complete."
However, while the expansion project was being built, the global seaborne thermal coal market soured. With European coal markets the dominant destination for Cerrejon's coal, the project had been hit hard by a 30 per cent fall in coal prices in the year to early 2015.
In March 2015 Cerrejon Coal Company's Chief Executive Officer, Roberto Junguito, said that Cerrejon was losing money on "a little less than 11 percent" of its current production of 33.7 million tonnes in 2014. “If there’s already a fraction that’s close to the profitability threshold, it’s very hard to justify additional investment ... Our objective is to continue implementing initiatives to ensure that we can at least maintain our current production in a profitable way,” he told ''Bloomberg''.<ref name=Bloom>Andrew Willis, [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-19/bhp-colombia-mine-ceo-seeks-cost-savings-amid-coal-price-slump "BHP Colombia Mine CEO Seeks Cost Savings Amid Coal Price Slump"], ''Bloomberg'', March 15, 2015.</ref>
Junguito stated that the joint venture expects to export about 34 million tonnes in 2015, well under its 40 million tonnes per annum capacity.<ref name=Bloom/>
==Exports==