Sharpei, TJ, DC, Far, Bar You got your ears on? I'm wandering how much truth there is to the below about rail capacity growth in China in 2013 and how much it will affect coal prices. Anyone have a rail map with the new rails or know where they are being built? I guess it's not a bad thing in the long run as more rails should help bring about more urbanization and growth?
China, the world’s top producer and consumer of coal, will commission 2,950 kilometers (1,833 miles) of coal-transporting rail lines after startup delays in 2012, Michael Parker, a Hong Kong-based analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. wrote in an e-mailed note yesterday.
“Rail capacity growth is a core aspect of our bearishness on the Chinese coal sector,” Parker wrote in the report. “As delayed projects are commissioned in 2013, paths to market will expand and pressure on coal price will persist.”
https://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-01-16/yanzhou-drops-as-world-bank-cuts-outlook-china-overnight