Cargo record in Gijón port as 63,000 tonnes of coal are exported to Morocco

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Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) The unloading of large bulk ships with iron and coal for ArcelorMittal’s factories has been a common image in Gijón port for decades.

Now the flows are seen in the opposite direction: the shipment of large amounts of coal for export. This has already happened twice in the last two weeks, with the shipment of two vessels with more than 120,000 tonnes to a thermal power station in Morocco.

The last one was on June 3 at the Ingeniero Olano dock and broke the cargo record in the port of Gijón to date: 63,000 tonnes. It was 500 tonnes more than the shipment of May 24 in the “TR Infinity” ship. So far, the largest shipments from Gijón port were cement and clinker exports of between 30,000 and 35,000 tonnes.

The coal for Morocco is sent by Natural Mining Resources, a Madrid company belonging to a Swiss group that collects ore in the back yard of the solid bulk terminal, European Bulk Handling Installation (EBHISA). This is a shipment for the largest thermal power station in Morocco, Jorf Lasfar – near the town of El Jadida, just over 100 kilometres south of Casablanca – with a generating capacity of 2,056 MW.

Source: La Nueva España