This port handles coal, and intermodal traffic.
The yard mainly handles automobile, coal, grain, and lumber loads for local industries.
This originally handled coal from the Coventry coalfield, and now serves the canal's popular leisure traffic.
Used for handling containers, cement, coal, barge discharge, fertilizers, and general cargo.
To handle wet coal, coal jigs were used.
This handled domestic coal until closure in June 1964.
Today the port still handles coal with the help of two gantry cranes.
Despite the decision against fully-fledged strike action, transport and railworkers were ordered not to handle imported coal.
Throughout its lifetime, the yard handled loaded and empty coal and coke wagons almost to the exclusion of other traffic.
The miners had secured an agreement from the railwaymen that they would not handle coal.