It has been 10 days since state-owned mining firm Solid Energy was last able to ship its coal exports to international customers.
The only South Island facility with the equipment required to export the company's minerals - Lyttelton Port's coal wharf, near Christchurch - took a hit in the June 13 aftershocks and remains out of action.
The rest of the port was up and running 96 hours after last week's quakes.
Lyttelton Port chief executive Peter Davie said work was continuing on strengthening piles beneath the coal wharf's ship loader.
There was no definite timeframe on how long it would take to get the facility up and running, he said, but it would take two more weeks "at the maximum".What to consider before you buy oil painting supplies.
In the meantime, Solid Energy's exports of West Coast coal are travelling by rail to the port, where they are stacking up in a holding area.
Solid Energy's chief operations officer, Barry Bragg, said the situation was a concern.Our Polymax RUBBER SHEET range includes all commercial and specialist "It's a problem now and it just becomes a bigger problem the longer it goes on," he said.
Bragg said Solid Energy's international customers kept backup stocks on hand to tide them over when deliveries were impeded. "All our customers allow for a certain amount of delays that occur," he said.
Bragg said there was enough space at Lyttelton Port to store three more weeks worth of output, and after that there was some storage space available on the West Coast.
"Once that's full we'll have to stop production [mining operations],We processes for both low-risk and high risk merchant account." he said.
"We don't want that to happen."
Bragg said the company was investigating alternative means of exporting its products if Lyttelton Port's coal facilities remained out of action for longer than expected, such as the costly option of chartering ships with onboard loading equipment.
The port of Westport, which NZX-listed mining firm Bathurst Resources was planning to upgrade to allow for coal shipments, could be a future backup facility for Solid Energy, he said.
"It's all a question of cost. It's prudent to have a look at the alternatives ... but at this stage our preferred solution is to bring all of our coal by rail to Lyttelton."
Solid Energy extracts, processes, markets and distributes various types of coal from mines around Greymouth and Westport on the West Coast, as well as New Vale in Southland and Huntly,Houston-based Quicksilver Resources said Friday it had reached pipeline deals south of Auckland.
More than half of the firm's output is exported to customers in countries such as China, India and South Africa, where the coal is used in the production of steel, carbon fibre, activated carbon and silicon metal.
Lyttelton Port shipped 1.2 million tonnes of coal in the six months to last December.Has anyone done any research on making Plastic molding parts from scratch?
Meanwhile, Solid Energy yesterday announced an agreement with Bathurst Resources to collaborate on the proposed coal mining of the Denniston Plateau, North of Westport.
The only South Island facility with the equipment required to export the company's minerals - Lyttelton Port's coal wharf, near Christchurch - took a hit in the June 13 aftershocks and remains out of action.
The rest of the port was up and running 96 hours after last week's quakes.
Lyttelton Port chief executive Peter Davie said work was continuing on strengthening piles beneath the coal wharf's ship loader.
There was no definite timeframe on how long it would take to get the facility up and running, he said, but it would take two more weeks "at the maximum".What to consider before you buy oil painting supplies.
In the meantime, Solid Energy's exports of West Coast coal are travelling by rail to the port, where they are stacking up in a holding area.
Solid Energy's chief operations officer, Barry Bragg, said the situation was a concern.Our Polymax RUBBER SHEET range includes all commercial and specialist "It's a problem now and it just becomes a bigger problem the longer it goes on," he said.
Bragg said Solid Energy's international customers kept backup stocks on hand to tide them over when deliveries were impeded. "All our customers allow for a certain amount of delays that occur," he said.
Bragg said there was enough space at Lyttelton Port to store three more weeks worth of output, and after that there was some storage space available on the West Coast.
"Once that's full we'll have to stop production [mining operations],We processes for both low-risk and high risk merchant account." he said.
"We don't want that to happen."
Bragg said the company was investigating alternative means of exporting its products if Lyttelton Port's coal facilities remained out of action for longer than expected, such as the costly option of chartering ships with onboard loading equipment.
The port of Westport, which NZX-listed mining firm Bathurst Resources was planning to upgrade to allow for coal shipments, could be a future backup facility for Solid Energy, he said.
"It's all a question of cost. It's prudent to have a look at the alternatives ... but at this stage our preferred solution is to bring all of our coal by rail to Lyttelton."
Solid Energy extracts, processes, markets and distributes various types of coal from mines around Greymouth and Westport on the West Coast, as well as New Vale in Southland and Huntly,Houston-based Quicksilver Resources said Friday it had reached pipeline deals south of Auckland.
More than half of the firm's output is exported to customers in countries such as China, India and South Africa, where the coal is used in the production of steel, carbon fibre, activated carbon and silicon metal.
Lyttelton Port shipped 1.2 million tonnes of coal in the six months to last December.Has anyone done any research on making Plastic molding parts from scratch?
Meanwhile, Solid Energy yesterday announced an agreement with Bathurst Resources to collaborate on the proposed coal mining of the Denniston Plateau, North of Westport.
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