How to Start a Coal Transportation Business

Every entrepreneur must seize basic knowledge and skill when they decide to start a coal transportation business. Great planning, research, and study are needed to familiarize the process and procedure of the said business.

Coal transportation business can provide great income to it if planed and handled properly. This is a challenging business since you also have to deal with the environment protection and its laws. To ensure success in this type of business venture, familiarity and legality are some of the keys.

Thing to Consider of Coal Transportation Business

Way of transporting coal depends on location or distance that needed to be covered. This can be done trough truck or conveyor if the distance is short. For a large distribution and transportation, you will be needing barges or trains or the coal can be mix together with water to make a slurry coal and able to transport it through the pipeline. For international delivery or transportation, shipping is needed.

It’s very important that before you invest and decide of putting up this type of business is that you have enough knowledge of it. As stated above, proper knowledge will lead you to success. Consult experience or experts for a guide, read and search the web for ideas and different types of coals that you’re willing to market. It’s necessary that you’re familiar with its types or kinds so that you know what the best to offer your customers.

Step by Step Process

First, you must be familiar of the type of coal that you will be transporting and identify the area that your services will cover. Study the area of competition. This is very important since you need to establish business with less or non existing competitors in the area. Since you’re in transportation business, it is important to obtain a drivers license and register your business to make it legal and avoid law related problems in the future. Plan thoroughly by considering the market, capital, marketing plan, strategy and the projected revenue of the business, you may also raise capital investment by means of bank or a partner or investors. Consider getting liability insurance and buy cargo, the amount will depend on your area. Consult a lawyer to draw up agreement for the transporting and also for the staff if you’re planning of getting one. Purchase the needed equipment and advertise your business by means of putting up a website, TV ads or simple by distributing brochures.

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Important Note

As an entrepreneur of a coal business, you must be financially and mentally prepared. You must be willing to adjust on the demand in the industry and adapt as well their business model. Being in coal business, you must not just be ready of the transportation but the selling. Prepare to sell various coal products such as steam coal, industrial coal, specialty coal, and stoker coal. Ensure that you meet the standard transportation for the precise type of coal that needs to be transported. You must also take care or look forward to the proper disposal and removal of ashes, be sure that you’re fully equipped of complying the protocols and guidelines of the EPA.
 

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10 Comments

  • bele said on January 19, 2017
    i want to start a company to transport coal in sa
  • maurice said on May 28, 2018
    I have interest in starting a coal transport business
  • Maggie Mataboge said on November 26, 2018
    I want to know more about coal transportation in South Africa.
  • ashish dwivedi said on November 25, 2019
    I need a business partner in all Uttar Pradesh side...
  • Botsile said on May 7, 2020
    Need help to start a transport/distribution business in South Africa.
  • AYUSH SINGH THAKUR said on May 14, 2020
    I wanna start my coal transportation business in INDIA......through Trucks
  • Psycho Mashiloane said on August 30, 2020
    Hello there, my name is Psycho Mashiloane. Currently am running a small company of Taxis. So I got clues about running a Transportation Business. I now want to grow big like Transporting to Eskom. Can you please assist me in this regard? Thanks can contact me at my e-mail address.
  • Vela said on August 15, 2021
    I need help on starting coal transportation business in sa
  • Duduzile said on July 21, 2022
    Hi I need help on starting a coal transporting business,using rented trucks how does one gets a deal with a reliable mine.
  • Mos said on July 31, 2022
    Hi interested to buy a truck and start a coal transportation in Mpumalanga in South Africa. Need assistance on how to start please

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