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NEW DELHI, Nov 1 Asia Pulse - Faced with huge shortage of coking coal, Steel Authority of India Ltd (BSE:SAIL) has signed an agreement with Australian mining giant BHP Billiton (ASX:BHP_ and SAIL is also considering picking up equity after the due diligence process gets overs.
"We have signed a MoU with them. We may pick up equity or there may be commercial arrangement for supply of coking coal," SAIL Chairman V S Jain said here Friday.
This would ease the situation for the steel giant whose coking coal requirement from imports remain in a range of about 10 to 11 million tonnes annually.
The entire process may take about three to four years for a regular supply of coking coal and in the mean time SAIL has started looking alternate ways and means ...
Source: HighBeam Research, INDIA'S SAIL SIGNS MoU WITH BHP; MAY PICK UP EQUITY.