The New South Wales government's nominally independent Planning Assessment Commission (PAC) has approved a fourth coal loader for the port of Newcastle. Port Waratah Coal Services (PWCS) initially ...

PREMIER Peter Beattie signalled that coal would retain its importance as an export earner for the state when he commissioned the new $200 million RG Tanna Coal Terminal ship loader yesterday. Mr ...

The billion dollar second stage of Newcastle's third coal loader has opened, increasing annual exports by an extra 23 million tonnes.(Supplied NCIG) The billion dollar second stage of Newcastle's ...

More than a dozen people have been arrested in an early-morning climate protest as a final swansong for one of the year's biggest activist events. Having boarded coal ships in previous days, ...

The upgrade, costing $18 million, was completed on schedule over a 90-day period beginning in August. It involved major overhauls of the facility’s dumper system, which transfers coal from rail cars ...

About 100 Port Kembla Coal Terminal (PKCT) employees are maintaining industrial action following a breakdown in talks on Friday at a Fair Work Australia hearing over a new enterprise agreement. The ...

A group of 30 people held up construction of a second loader arm at Newcastle's third coal loader site on Kooragang Island on May 10, stopping a crane crew for about 90 minutes. The protest coincided ...

More than 200 coal loading workers at terminals in Newcastle, 160 kilometres north of Sydney, are continuing to impose rolling strikes and work bans in opposition to demands they accept greater ...