Mobile River Terminal
{{#badges: CoalSwarm |Navbar-Coalexports}} Mobile River Terminal, also known as the Blue Creek Coal Terminal, is a proposed coal export terminal at the Port of Mobile in Alabama.
Background
In 2011 Birmingham-based Walter Energy purchased the Mobile River Terminal for US$35 million to increase its shipping capacity. Company officials said that they also still planned to use the nearby McDuffie Coal Terminal, about 2,000 feet south of the Mobile River terminal.[1] The company planned to export its Yellow Creek coking coal production.[2]
Walter Energy proposed to redevelop a vacant site that was once a coke and iron ore handling facility. All structures on the site were demolished in 2011-2012 to make way for a coal-handling facility. Coal mined from Tuscaloosa and surrounding counties in North Central Alabama would be transported by barge to the Mobile River Terminal for handling and export.[3] Mobile River Terminal would have an annual coal capacity of 5.5 million tonnes.[4]
In August 2014 Walter Energy sold the terminal and associated properties to the Alabama State Port Authority for US$25 million, who will develop a container port at the site instead. Pursuant to the deal, the Alabama State Port Authority agreed to a long-term extension of the existing coal handling agreement with Walter Energy at the Port Authority's McDuffie Coal Terminal.[5] Walter Energy currently exports approximately 7 million tonnes of coking coal through the McDuffie Coal Terminal.[2]
Project Details
- Sponsor: Walter Energy
- Location: Port of Mobile, Alabama
- Capacity (Tonnes per annum): 5.5 million
- Status: Cancelled
Resources
References
- ↑ Dan Murtaugh, "Port Authority wants to pass along costs of coal terminal upgrade" al.com, February 23, 2011.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Sylvie Cornot-Gandolphe “US Coal Exports: The Long Road to Asian Markets,” Oxford OIES PAPER: CL 2, March 2015
- ↑ "Blue Creek Coal Terminal Mobile, Alabama 2013-2014," Public hearing notice, accessed May 2015
- ↑ "Walter Energy Mobile River Terminal (Mobile, AL)," Clean Gulf Commerce Coalition, accessed May 2015
- ↑ "Walter Energy divests USD25m Blue Creek Coal Terminal at Port of Mobile, Alabama," CMTX, Aug 26, 2014
