Glencore dumps plan for new coal terminal at Balaclava Island GLENCORE Xstrata said it would abandon plans for a new coal shipping facility in Queensland, a move that reflects sustained weakness in Australia's once-booming coal export industry. The proposed Balaclava Island Coal Export Terminal, which was designed to ship 35 million tonnes a year from a site 40 kilometres south of the city of Rockhampton, would have opened up a new route for coal exports from the resource-rich Bowen and Surat basins to buyers in Asia.