The name of the town comes from its days as a coal port on the Pennsylvania Canal.

The use of Bicheno as a coal port was short-lived.

It soon became a successful coal port and ship-building centre.

Climate change activists have staged direct actions at the coal port on a number of occasions.

This makes Hay Point one of the largest coal ports in the world.

Matutuine - new coal port approved October 2009 in the far south.

Once completed it will be the largest coal port in the world.

It grew when it was developed as a coal port in the 1880s.

By 1913, Barry was the largest coal exporting port in the world.

The total cost of the new railways and the new coal port would be around 1.5 billion dollars.