Xcoal Energy & Resources is a leading, worldwide supplier of metallurgical and thermal coals from the U.S., Canada, Australia, Indonesia, Russia, China, and Mongolia. Xcoal supplies low volatile, mid volatile, high volatile, and semi-soft coking coals to steel customers throughout the world. Xcoal supplies high quality anthracite coal for use in metallurgical processing. As a global supplier of energy, Xcoal also provides thermal coal to electric utility and industrial customers.

Innovative logistical processes support Xcoal’s nearly 16 million metric tons of metallurgical and thermal coal exports; specifically, the internationally recognized ‘top off’ operation maximizes vessel efficiencies demonstrating the long term sustainability and competiveness of U.S.A. origin coals in the global market place.

Xcoal is an active investor and financial partner in coal mining and infrastructure projects around the world.

DMT is a global engineering services and consultancy group with 280 years of experience. With 14 engineering and consulting companies at 30 locations around the world, we focus on the markets of plant and process engineering, infrastructure and civil engineering, and natural resources.
 
DMT Cokemaking Services offers testing and consultancy for coal blend optimization and coal & coke quality control. We support and attend to customers worldwide using both standardized and in-house specially developed equipment for carbonization, coal analysis and coke testing located in Essen, Germany. Get all the services you need from an independent and objective integrated company.

SunCoke Energy provides high-quality coke to the integrated steel industry under long-term, take-or-pay contracts that pass through commodity and certain operating costs to customers. Utilizes an innovative heat-recovery cokemaking technology that captures excess heat for steam or electrical power generation. Cokemaking facilities located in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, USA; and Brazil. Additionally, provides export and domestic coal handling services to the coke, coal, steel and power industries. Material handling terminals with the collective capacity to blend and transload more than 40 million tons each year, strategically located to reach Gulf Coast, East Coast, Great Lakes and international ports.

Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) is one of the nation’s premier transportation companies. Its Norfolk Southern Railway Company subsidiary operates approximately 19,300 route miles in 22 states and the District of Columbia, serves every major container port in the eastern United States, and provides efficient connections to other rail carriers. Norfolk Southern is a major transporter of industrial products, including agriculture, forest and consumer products, chemicals, and metals and construction materials. In addition, the railroad operates the most extensive intermodal network in the East and is a principal carrier of coal, automobiles, and automotive parts.
 
Norfolk Southern serves coal transload facilities located strategically across our rail network. Norfolk Southern works closely with producers, receivers, agents, and brokers to support the sourcing, blending, and transportation of high-quality utility, metallurgical, and industrial coals that power communities, advance economic development, and feed manufacturing in America and around the world.

CSX Corporation, together with its subsidiaries based in Jacksonville, Fla., is one of the nation's leading transportation suppliers. The company’s rail and intermodal businesses provide rail-based transportation services including traditional rail service and the transport of intermodal containers and trailers.
 
CSX serves major markets in the eastern United States and has access to over 70 ocean, river and lake port terminals along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, the Mississippi River, the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway. The company also has access to Pacific ports through alliances with western railroads.
 
CSX directly serves more than 100 active coal load-outs in 9 states. We also interchange with multiple Class I and short line railroad partners to access additional coal loading facilities from all coal basins. We have a proven track record of providing our customers with safe and efficient supply chains for moving domestic and export coal.
 
CSX interchanges with Western railroads and short lines, and provides access to multiple Eastern seaports. The CSX network runs through the heart of the Appalachian coal fields, and we have direct access to producers of all coal qualities.
 
Overall, the CSX Transportation network encompasses about 20,000 route miles of track in 23 states, the District of Columbia and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Our transportation network serves some of the largest population centers in the nation. Nearly two-thirds of Americans live within CSX’s service territory.