{"id":370611,"date":"2020-08-29T09:49:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T04:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=370611"},"modified":"2020-08-29T10:08:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T04:38:44","slug":"australian-court-orders-adani-abbot-port-to-pay-106-million-over-port-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/australian-court-orders-adani-abbot-port-to-pay-106-million-over-port-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian court orders Adani Abbot Port to pay $106 million over port dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adani Australia has been ordered to pay $106.8 million to four coal companies over a contractual dispute regarding access and terminal handling charges for the Indian business group\u2019s Abbot Point coal terminal in North Queensland, local media reported.<\/p>\n<p>In a judgment released by the Queensland Supreme Court in Brisbane late on Thursday, the court found that Adani had not offered &#8220;reasonable charges&#8221; for access to the port between July 2017 and July 2018, Australian Financial Review reported.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, a Rio Tinto-owned company, Queensland Coal, had negotiated an agreement to assign its rights to export coal from the port to Adani\u2019s mining arm from 2022, for which Adani had been paid a total of $255 million by Queensland Coal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adani Australia has been ordered to pay $106.8 million to four coal companies over a contractual dispute regarding access and terminal handling charges for the Indian business group\u2019s Abbot Point coal terminal in North Queensland, local media reported. In a judgment released by the Queensland Supreme Court in Brisbane late on Thursday, the court found that Adani had not offered &#8220;reasonable charges&#8221; for access to the port between July 2017 and July 2018, Australian Financial Review reported. In 2016, a Rio Tinto-owned company, Queensland Coal, had negotiated an agreement to assign its rights to export coal from the port to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[190,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}