Many shippers complain that for heavy bulk commodities traveling long distances, such as coal, chemicals, and grain, trucking is too cost1y and the rai1roads therefore have them by the throat.

许多发货人抱怨，对于长途运输的如煤炭、化工产品和粮食这样的大宗商品来说，使用卡车运输成本太高，因此铁路公司就会制约他们的发展。

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Fewer shipments of coal and other bulk products will also be felt by infrastructure operators.

基础设施运营商也将感受到煤炭和其它散货发货量的减少。

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In the business of shipping dry-bulk cargoes, mostly iron ore, coal and grain, there is not even the hint of a silver lining to the cloud.

ECONOMIST: Shipping

Kinder says he's looking for other pipeline partnerships to buy, and Kinder Morgan is expanding into terminals that handle coal and other dry bulk materials, hoping to capitalize on long-term trends such as the shift by electric utilities away from Appalachian coal toward cleaner- burning western coal.

FORBES: Sweet consolation

Located next to the convention center, the stadium would have doubled the mass and length of the huge bunker against the river already established by that "lump of black coal" -- as essayist Phillip Lopate described its dark bulk in his literary trip around the edges of Manhattan -- cutting off views and access with nearly a mile of hulking wall.

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