[cmonstanley]

well we import millions of tons of coal every year ,so whatever companies that are buying them are letting millions of pounds leave the country minus tax collected from miners wages so it is costing more importing coal.i see at least ten cargo ships a week full of coal being emptied at Hunterston,the deepest inshore port in britain. The coal is piled up in huge heaps just now as a coal ship from south america has landed.i see a coal train leave there every hour.