As of July 1, importers of coking and bituminous coal to Ukraine used 34.43 percent of their annual quota. For the current year, the quota in question is 10.2 million mt. Of this figure, the unused quota volume is 6.688 million mt. For ...
Tags: Quota, Coal Imports
China will no longer be the strong driver of the international thermalcoal market that it has been in the past three years, Deutsche Bank saidFriday in a report. Using annualized year-to-date figures, Deutsche Bank said China's 2013coal ...
Tags: thermalcoal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The Asian thermal coal market is cautiously awaiting a decision from China, wondering if Beijing is serious about imposing a ban on imports of low calorific value coal, according to a range of market players interviewed by Platts Monday at ...
Tags: Low CV Coal, Import Ban
Despite depressed prices for seaborne metallurgical and thermal coal, Peabody Energy expects global coal demand to grow nearly 4% in 2013, and 13% in China and India combined, according to an investor presentation made Wednesday at the ...
Tags: Chemicals, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, coal
A spike in Japan's thermal coal imports in April was more a short-term push to accommodate new coal-fired power generation capacity coming online rather than any sign of a sustained long-term trend, according to a report by Macquarie ...
Tags: New Capacity, Thermal Coal Import
Ukraine's interagency commission for distribution of quotas for coking coal imports in 2013 has officially posted the recommended distribution of the quotas for the June-August period of the current year, which was determined at a meeting ...
Tags: Coking Coal, Ukraine
According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in the first quarter of the current year, Turkey's coking coal imports totaled 6.3 million metric tons, decreasing 4.1 percent compared to the same period of 2012. ...
Tags: coking coal, raw mat, Turkey, Europe, imp/exp statistics, steelmaking
China's proposed ban on imports of low calorific value thermal coal will have a serious impact on Indonesian sub-bituminous coal prices, industry sources said Thursday. Platts, quoting well-informed sources, reported this week that ...
Tags: Low CV Coal, Indonesian Prices
China could be ready to deploy its proposed embargo on imports of thermal coal with a calorific value of less than 4,540 kcal/kg on a net-as-received basis, and on thermal coal with a sulfur and ash content of more than 1% and 25% ...
Tags: Low CV Coal Imports, Chemicals
Market reports that China's National Energy Administration is considering a proposal to outlaw the import of some grades of lower calorific thermal coal has been greeted with a mixture of consternation and disbelief by participants in the ...
Tags: Asia Market, Thermal Coal
According to statistics released by Japan's Ministry of Finance, Japan's coking coal imports totaled 6.7 million metric tons in March this year, rising by 34.6 percent month on month and up 24 percent compared to March 2012. In the first ...
Tags: Coking Coal, Mineral
According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in February this year Turkey's coking coal imports amounted to 2.02 million mt, down 21.4 percent year on year and increasing by 1.8 percent compared to ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel
According to statistics released by Japan's Ministry of Finance, Japan's coking coal imports totaled 5 million metric tons in February this year, falling by 18 percent month on month and down 12.8 percent compared to February 2012. In ...
Tags: Coking Coal Imports, Mineral
China's imports of thermal coal could contract in 2013 as demand growth in the seaborne market is expected to moderate to 2% over the next four years, Goldman Sachs warned in a research note on Friday. "We believe 2013 will represent a ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, Chemicals
According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in January this year Turkey's coking coal imports rose by 11.9 percent year on year but decreased to the lowest level recorded since January last year to 2 million ...
Tags: Coking Coal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy