Gujarat NRE Coke, the largest independent producer of LAMC in the country, achieved another milestone on Thursday when it loaded the first shipment of coking coal produced at its NRE Wongawilli Colliery in Australia. More than 20,000 tonnes of coal from the recently acquired mine was loaded onto the bulk carrier sea urchin at Port Kembla's coal loader, for India . The Wongawilli coal was placed in separate compartments to 52,000 tonnes of coking coal from Gujarat NRE 1 Colliery at Russell Vale.The coal production at Wongawilli is expected to ramp up to 2.5 million tonnes per annum by 2010-11 when the workforce will be doubled. Gujarat NRE is currently operating two, mines in the Wollongong area. The company's Illawarra operations now provide work for more than 350 employees and contractors at NRE Wongawilli and its sister mine, NRE No 1, at Russell Vale, north of Wollongong, which was purchased by the Gujarat group in December 2004.
The company made this announcement after the trading hours on Friday, 13 June 2008.
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