CONSOL Energy

Distribution

The United States maintains 30 percent of the world's coal reserves, the most of any nation in the world and nearly 50 percent of the country's electricity comes from coal. This is the very cornerstone of America's productivity and prosperity. Without it, our lives would be markedly different.

We transport our thermal and metallurgical coal to our customers in several ways. Most of our mines are served by Class 1 railroads, and our coal preparation plants have the capacity to hundreds of rail cars daily. Others have the ability to load directly to the river into barges for shipments to river served utilities.

With global energy demand projected to grow 50 percent by 2035, many of those rail cars deliver coal to our Baltimore Marine Terminal, which exported a record 12.6 million tons in 2011. To better service that growth in demand, the Marine Terminal has an infrastructure expansion underway that will allow CONSOL Energy to increase the amount of coal we can export from 14 to 16 million tons annually.

Overland Conveyor Belt

Moving Coal by Rail

In addition, CONSOL Energy operates 25 towboats, five harbor boats and more than 750 barges. Together, they carry more than 20 million tons of coal up and down the Monongahela, Allegheny and Ohio rivers. The company's Baltimore export terminal supplies coal to many overseas destinations. The terminal can store more than one million tons of coal on site and is the only East Coast terminal served by two railroads.

Dock Services

River Services