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Brookfield Asset Management, the group that rescued Babcock & Brown Infrastructure (BBI), plans to expand the capacity of the Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal to capture the benefits of the next commodity boom.

Brookfield’s Toronto-based chief executive, Bruce Flatt, will tour the coal loading facility near Mackay in north Queensland this week, after the company paid $295 million for a 49.5 per cent stake in the asset last month.

Prices for coal shipped from South Africa’s Richards Bay, site of the continent’s biggest export facility for the fuel, rose to a ten-month high on Asian demand and orders before the year-end holidays.

Export prices increased 96 c, or 1,4 percent, to an average of $68,45 a metric ton in the week ended December 11, according to the McCloskey Group.

South Africa is a country of the world’s largest coal exporter. Company-the world’s largest mining company to invest a lot of searching and exploration of coal mines in South Africa.

South African coal production always increased from year to year, but the South African government faces constraints to deliver coal production, because the capacity of the coal terminal capacity is still limited.