SBI may provide up to $1 billion loan for Adani's Australia coal mine
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Adani Enterprises' $7 billion coal mine, rail and port project got a fillip on Monday, with the company signing an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with State Bank of India.
The trading and infrastructure conglomerate signed a MoU to line up a loan of up to $1 billion from SBI for the Carmichael mine in Queensland, which it aims to build by the end of 2017.
"The MOU with SBI is a significant milestone in the development of our Carmichael mine," Adani Group Chairman and founder, Gautam Adani, who has close ties with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said in a statement, following a signing in Brisbane.
Adani came to Brisbane with a business delegation from India for the G20 summit, which Modi attended over the weekend.
The company also won a commitment from the state government to take short-term, minority stakes in rail and port infrastructure needed to unlock massive coal reserves in the untapped Galilee Basin. Coal from the region must be sent 400 km (250 miles) by rail to Australia's east coast.
"We are bringing on board valued partners in different facets of this integrated project, ensuring we will meet our guidance of first coal in 2017," Adani Mining CEO Jeyakumar Janakaraj said in a statement.
No final investment decision has been made on the Carmichael project.
Australia's federal and Queensland governments are eager to see the mine built following the loss of more than 4,000 coal jobs over the past two years, but analysts and project finance experts believe Adani may have underestimated the challenge of raising funds for the project.
Adani, which is also facing a campaign by anti-coal campaigners, is counting on lining up funding from South Korea, having named POSCO Engineering & Construction Co Ltd as the preferred contractor to build its rail line.
Adani's apparent momentum on the Carmichael project is in stark contrast to rival Indian firm GVK's slow progress on another huge coal mine in the Galilee Basin, the Alpha project, which is co-owned by Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart.
Much bigger coal rivals, like BHP Billiton and Glencore , have also shelved coal developments in Queensland at a time when a third of Australia's coal output is making losses.
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