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Most coal deals follow the same broad path, even if every business runs it its own way. Coal is bought — from a PSU auction against a sale order, from a mine, an importer or another trader. It is lifted or loaded, moved by road (or rail), received and weighed, tested for quality, and stocked in a yard. It is then sold, dispatched, delivered against a proof of delivery, billed, and the money is collected. Along the way the transporter is settled, and the books are reconciled.
Each step creates a record someone else relies on: the sale order and lifting balance, the lorry receipt and kanta slip, the lab report, the stock register, the invoice and e-way bill, the POD, the payment entry and the ledger.
Trouble usually starts at a hand-off — where one person's figure becomes another person's starting point. A weight typed differently at dispatch and at billing, a lab report on a different basis, a payment entered against the wrong invoice. The fewer times the same figure is re-typed, the fewer places it can drift.
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Not every business has every step. A trader who buys from an importer has no auction or lifting; a depot that sells from stock may never touch a PSU sale order; some traders sell 'on the wheel', dispatching straight from the source without yard stock.
Exceptions are part of the path, not failures of it: part-lifting before a DO expires, short or excess weight on arrival, a quality claim, a partial or advance payment, a disputed freight deduction. Each needs its own record, or it ends up in someone's memory.
What it means if you trade coal
Map your own path once — step by step, with who records what. The steps where a figure is re-typed or kept only on paper are where disputes and delays come from.
Hinglish mein, short mein
Coal ka sauda aam taur pe aise chalta hai: kharid (auction, khadaan, importer ya trader) → lifting ya loading → gaadi → maal aana aur kanta → quality test → stock → bikri → dispatch → POD ke saath delivery → bill → vasooli → transporter ka hisaab → milan. Gadbad aksar wahan hoti hai jahan ek aadmi ka figure doosre ka shuruaati figure banta hai.
Sources
- ExplanationCoal Boss explanation of common coal-trade practice
Coal Boss explanation of common trade practice — not a rule. Every business agrees its own terms.
