Colombia is expected to produce just over 2% less coal in 2012 than estimated after labor unrest, newswire Reuters reported on Tuesday.
A strike of the managers of Colombia’s main railway lasting five weeks was followed by a three-month-long strike of workers in the
In October the government lowered its annual expectations to 93 million tons from 97 million tons after the strikes, however the predictions are still higher than total production in 2011, when the country only reached 85.8 million tons.