Unfortunately BlackPeter.
Coal is a dirty word in the world right now and even if Bathurst had responsibe directors,
they might be fighting a lost cause.
Sure it s very high grade coking coal, but Australia has been shutting some of their ones down and they are huge.
Westport really needs a proper port facility, where it is able to make shipping cheap, to be competive.
Railing to ChCh, or barging to New Plymouth is not cheap.
They need every competive edge they can get, including reducing the amount of directors and changing the reward structure, where shares are part of the deal.