Colombia’s second-largest coal miner resumed coal loadings at Puerto Bolivar on Tuesday, after a 23-day blockade of key rail links by indigenous groups prevented Cerrejon from fulfilling its export contracts. The blockade ended on the afternoon of 13 April, prompting the miner to resume loadings immediately after having stockpiled coal, sources said. Four vessels are anchored outside the Puerto Bolivar terminal waiting to load, according to an official from maritime authority Dimar. Two vessels set sail without coal in the past two weeks to other ports as the blockade prevented them from docking, the Dimar source said. One of the vessels was expected to deliver coal to Japan, said a Puerto Bolivar worker.
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