Fording Files 2003 Documents CALGARY, March 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Fording Canadian Coal Trust (TSX: FDG.UN, NYSE: FDG) today announced that it has filed its audited consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2003 and related management's discussion and analysis and its annual information form with Canadian security regulatory authorities. The financial statements and management's discussion and analysis and the Trust's form 40-F have also been filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Copies of the respective documents are available at http://www.sedar.com/, http://www.sec.gov/ and the Trust's website at http://www.fording.ca/. Fording Canadian Coal Trust is an open-ended mutual fund trust. Through investments in metallurgical coal and industrial minerals mining and processing operations, the Trust makes quarterly cash distributions to unitholders. The Trust, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Fording Inc., holds a 65% ownership of Elk Valley Coal and is the world's largest producer of the industrial mineral wollastonite. Elk Valley Coal, comprised of Canada's senior metallurgical coal mining properties, is the world's second largest exporter of metallurgical coal, capable of supplying approximately 25 million tonnes of high-quality coal products annually to the international steel industry. DATASOURCE: Fording Canadian Coal Trust CONTACT: Catherine Hart, Coordinator, Investor Relations, Fording Canadian Coal Trust, 403-260-9817,

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