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* [[Hunter Ports]] is currently developing a $2.5 billion coal terminal on the former BHP Steel site on the Hunter River in Newcastle, Australia.<ref>[http://www.hunterports.com/ "About"] Hunter Ports, accessed November 29, 2011.</ref> The port would ship this coal to Asian markets.<ref name=ref>[http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-11-29/tinkler-proposes-competing-a-2-5-billion-nsw-coal-terminal.html "Tinkler Proposes Competing A$2.5 Billion NSW Coal Terminal"] Elisabeth Behrmann, Bloomberg, November 29, 2011.</ref> The planned Hunter Ports terminal is subject to state government approval to use the proposed site, may start exports from 2015. Existing coal mines and projects in and around the Hunter Valley, where [[Rio Tinto Group]] and Xstrata Plc own mines, would support additional annual exports of 65 million to 90 million tons of coal “if there is the infrastructure".<ref name=ref>[http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-11-29/tinkler-proposes-competing-a-2-5-billion-nsw-coal-terminal.html "Tinkler Proposes Competing A$2.5 Billion NSW Coal Terminal"] Elisabeth Behrmann, Bloomberg, November 29, 2011.</ref>
==Canada==
In 2012 Canada was the seventh largest coal exporting country in the world, mainly for coking coal: 31 million metric tons of coking coal and 4 million metric tons of steam coal.<ref>[http://www.worldcoal.org/resources/coal-statistics/ "Top Coal Exporters (2012e),"] World Coal Association, accessed July 2014.</ref>
==Colombia==
