(MENAFN- ProactiveInvestors)Atlantic Coal (LON:ATC) has opened a new rail loading facility at its Stockton mine in Pennsylvania just two months after construction started. Anthracite from the mine will now be shipped in 100 ton capacity railcars compared with 20 ton lorries previously. Atlantic will also no longer have to use third party rail loading facilities reducing loading and transport costs and providing a more efficient service. The facility built with the Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad is at the eastern end of the Stockton mine. Coal has already been dispatched to customers in Indiana and Idaho the company said. Steve Best Atlantic's managing director said: "From signing our agreement with RBMNR in June our new rail loading facility became operational in only two months an excellent achievement by our Stockton workforce and RBMNR. 'This facility now provides us with a significant commercial advantage in supplying our increased production of anthracite to customers across the US and potentially to Canada and to East Coast ports for export."
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