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Birmingham Post
Birmingham Post
Business
David Laister

New shipment in Immingham's 110th year as war and construction boom skew market in coal legacy nod

With 110 years of trading about to be celebrated, you’d think Port of Immingham would have handled it all.

But it has just welcomed a first shipment of conditioned pulverised fly ash.

A by-product of fossil fuel and biomass power generation, it forms a key construction raw material. And extreme market forces - with strong domestic demand meeting ready supply on the continent - have led to a record import.

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