{"id":567,"date":"2016-10-28T12:27:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T12:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/?p=567"},"modified":"2016-10-28T13:28:16","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T13:28:16","slug":"coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/2016\/10\/28\/coal\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_582\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-582\" class=\"wp-image-582 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/11_1_2_coal_trade_routes-1024x687.png\" alt=\"11_1_2_coal_trade_routes\" width=\"1024\" height=\"687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/11_1_2_coal_trade_routes-1024x687.png 1024w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/11_1_2_coal_trade_routes-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/11_1_2_coal_trade_routes-768x515.png 768w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/11_1_2_coal_trade_routes-218x146.png 218w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/11_1_2_coal_trade_routes-50x34.png 50w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/11_1_2_coal_trade_routes-112x75.png 112w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/11_1_2_coal_trade_routes.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>A :<\/strong> East Coast North America <strong>B :<\/strong> Colombia <strong>C :<\/strong> Brazil <strong>D :<\/strong> South Africa (Richards Bay) <strong>E :<\/strong> Australia (Newcastle)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>Coal Trades &#8211;\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Steam coal is used for powerstations, while higher quality coal is used mainly in the steel industry. An annual increase in demand for steam coal occurs from September to February to meet the need for greater electricity generation during the northern hemisphere\u2019s cold and dark winter months. This in turn, increases the demand for ships (especially Capesizes and Panamaxes) to move the coal from Richards Bay (South Africa), Brazil, south-eastern Australia, Columbia and other coal-producing regions to European ports. This increases the charter rate for these ships around that time.<\/p>\n<p>Similar to the growth in the iron ore trade, the coal trade boomed during the Chinese economic growth from 2001 to 2008, and declined once that country\u2019s economy had flattened out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coal Trades &#8211;\u00a0Steam coal is used for powerstations, while higher quality coal is used mainly in the steel industry. An annual increase in demand for steam coal occurs from September to February to meet the need for greater electricity generation during the northern hemisphere\u2019s cold and dark winter months. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-11-1-2-4-trade-routes","category-11-1-2-4-2-coal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}