Amsterdams coal transhipments business on the up

A 31-acre site is to be developed at Amsterdam including two deepsea quays, 300 metres each, to increase capacity for storage and transhipment of coal which has seen big increases over the past five years: Germany no longer extracts coal but imports it via Amsterdam from Australia, South Africa, Colombia and Russia. The first half of 2004 showed an increase of 25% over last year and is expected to exceed 19m tons by year end.