Australian environment activists closed down operations at the world’s largest coal port on Sunday, after entering three terminals and attaching themselves to loaders, the terminal operator and the protesters said. Newcastle, just north of Sydney, is the world’s largest coal export port and a major earner of foreign exchange for Australia. Port Waratah Coal Services is partly owned by mining giants Xstrata, and Rio Tinto, through its Coal and Allied subsidiary.
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