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Indonesia's PTBA boosts coal capacity with rail expansion project

The project includes train loading stations, conveyor systems and dump hoppers.

This initiative is part of an ongoing collaboration between PTBA and KAI to increase annual coal transport capacity by 20 million tons. Photo: PTBA

This initiative is part of an ongoing collaboration between PTBA and KAI to increase annual coal transport capacity by 20 million tons. Photo: PTBA

Three projects are being built at the facility - two train loading stations with a 3000 tons per hour capacity each, two conveyor systems of 13km and 17km length with similar capacity, and three dump hoppers...

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