By Rhiannon Hoyle SYDNEY–Rail and port operator Asciano Ltd. (AIO.AU) said wildfires raging across eastern Australia had damaged its rail network there, disrupting its coal-haulage operations even as it forecast an improvement in full-year profits. A spokesman for the company said Friday that one of Asciano’s rail lines–which transports coal from the Blue Mountains west of Sydney to the coast, largely for export to Asia–closed on Oct. 18 as fires broke out in New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state. The line should be back up-and-running next week, he said. “The recent bush fires have caused extensive damage on the Western line in southern southeast Australia and will impact volumes hauled in October,” Asciano said in a stock exchange filing. Asciano hauls coal across New South Wales state, including from several big mines in the Hunter Valley, to export facilities like the Port of Newcastle, the world’s largest coal […]