Snow angels. Steaming hot chocolate. Dogs romping over snow drifts.
Such images are not front and center for anybody affiliated with the East Coast coal market these days.
Think, maybe, of a box of frozen Milk Duds. That’s what rail cars loaded with coal can get like. It can be hard to get the coal out.
"The East Coast, including the shipping terminals at Hampton Roads and Baltimore, is currently getting battered by an Arctic cold front that is slowing coal shipments,” according to the Thursday edition of Coal & Energy, a trade publication.
"There are dumping delays due to frozen coal at the piers in Hampton Roads and Baltimore,” a U.S. coal supplier was quoted as saying earlier in the week.
