uake and tsunami. The company originally planned to close the ageing brewery by August of this year, but will now push the closure back until August 2012. The firm said the decision won't lead to any revisions to its earnings outlook for the current business year ending December. The move comes after Asahi decided to raise its production by over 10% via a boost in output at domestic breweries not affected by potential power outages. Its brewery in Fukushima, northern Japan, is scheduled to resume operation by next month after it was hit by the March 11 disament at the terminal, which is owned by 16 coal mining companies including Aquila and Swiss miner Xstrata PLC (XTA.LN). The terminal is scheduled to begin operations in 2014, and Aquila has previously said it expects expanded capacity to become available between 2015 and 2016. How to proceed with the development of the Eagle Downs project in the coal-rich Bowen Basin in central Queensland been a source of friction between Aquila and Vale, which has also taken a disagreement over the value of Aquila's minority 24.5% interest in their Belvedere coking coal project it wants to buy to the state's Supreme Court. Demand for coking coal is expected to remain strong in the coming years as rapidly industrializing Asian countries, particularly China, use more steel. Aquila in mid-2010 said it disputed the budget for Eagle Downs with Vale, and wanted the project's feasibility study due in June to include port and rail logistics that would be acceptable to financiers, something it said Value disagreed there was a need for. Aquila early last year was in another dispute with Vale, which it said hadn't supported a plan to export some of Eagle Downs' coal through a new rail link to the port of Abbot Point in northern Queensland. Aquila this month said it had lodged an interest in capacity at the Wiggins Island export terminal and was in the queue for the next expansion at the Dalrymple Bay terminal, where availability is expected in 2017. Eagle Downs, which is near BHP Billiton Ltd. (BHP) and Mitsubishi Corp.'s (8058.TO) jointly owned Peak Downs mine, has a resource of 959 million tons and a reserve of 254 mi