Coal production in China, the world's largest producer and consumer of the mineral, declined 6.1 percent in the first four months this year as the impact of the government's clean air and renewable energy policies began to weigh on the ...
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China's coal imports, including lignite, thermal and metallurgical coal, fell 32.7% year on year to 17.03 million mt in March, the ninth consecutive year-on-year decline, data from the General Administration of Customs (GAC) showed Monday. ...
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China's declining use of coal may be felt from Australia to the United States, especially the US state of Wyoming where coal is major part of the economy. Last week Premier Li Keqiang said China wanted to reduce its energy intensity ...
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Price slumps in the global commodity market continued to allow China to spend less while importing more, helping China save on enormous import bills, latest customs data showed. In the first ten months of this year, China imported 252.6 ...
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In the January-August period of the year, China produced 2.518 billion mt of coal, down 1.44 percent year on year, while it sold 2.4 billion mt of coal in the same period, down 1.62 percent year on year, as announced by the China National ...
Tags: Coal, Coal output, Coal market
China exported 400,000 mt of coal in June this year, down 18.37 percent month on month and declining by 16.7 percent year on year, while it exported 3.16 million mt of coal in the first half of the year, decreasing by 22.4 percent year on ...
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China Shenhua Energy, the listed subsidiary of the Shenhua Group, produced 25.2 million mt of commercial coal in May, down 5.6% from a year ago but up 4.1% from April, the company said late Tuesday. The company's coal sales stood at ...
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Few spot deals for Indonesian thermal coal were reported Wednesday, as Indian buyers opted to purchase from port stocks while Chinese demand remained inactive, sources said. A Dubai-based trader said he had seen many inquiries from Indian ...
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Global demand for imported thermal coal is expected to continue to grow but at a slower rate of 2% per year until 2018, as China faces an oversupply of domestic coal and shifts to a more diverse mix of renewable energy sources to address ...
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The Chinese thermal coal market is seeing some positive fundamental trends in the near term, helped by coal investment cuts, production declines and a slowdown in imports, even as seasonal weakness is expected to weigh on the market, an ...
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India's largest coal producer Coal India Limited is expected to decide whether to award a contract for thermal coal imports at its next board meeting set for late May, a source said Thursday. CIL received a single bid from government ...
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India imported around 15.86 million mt of coal at 24 major ports in April, up 6.45% from March, according to data released Wednesday by Indian ship broker Interocean. The April imports consisted of 12.3 million mt of thermal coal, up ...
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In the January-April period of the current year, coal production in Russia decreased by 1.8 percent year on year to 113.085 million mt, including 26.8 million mt of coal produced in April, down 9.8 percent compared to April 2013, according ...
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Despite shutdown of nuclear power plants, Japan is not expected to raise its thermal coal imports significantly over the next five-seven years, as existing coal-fired power plants are running at high rates and new facilities are still on ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, nuclear power plants
The prospect of Beijing banning imports of low-calorific value thermal coal again loomed over the Chinese seaborne market as the policy was rumoured to form the centerpiece of a tough new environmental law enacted by China's parliament, ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, lignite