Indonesian coal miners pump up production, eye European winter

JAKARTA — Indonesian coal miners are racing to spice up manufacturing amid report costs and rising demand from Europe forward of winter following a ban on the gasoline from Russia.

Miners in Indonesia — the world’s largest exporter of thermal coal — don’t usually ship to Europe, with China, India and another Asian nations remaining their high export locations. However the European Union prohibition on coal from Russia, which took impact in August, and that nation’s shutdown of some gasoline provides to the continent amid the conflict in Ukraine have left European patrons scrambling for coal from as far-off as Indonesia and Australia.