China Shipping (Group) Company could ship 40 million tonnes of coal for Shenhua Group in 2010, Li Shaode, the company's president said.
"We will intensify our co-operation with Shenhua Group to improve the freight capacity for coal," Li, who is also a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, told China Daily on the sidelines of a conference.
"The first two months have already seen seven million tonnes of coal shipped," he said, "and we estimate that it will rise to 40 million tonnes for the whole year."
As the second largest sea-cargo group in China, China Shipping (Group) Company transported less than 10 million tonnes of coal for Shenhua Group in 2009, while Shenhua Group, China's largest coal producer, had 159 million tonnes of its coal shipped in total that year.
Li expressed his concern about the slow recovery of the global economy.
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