Poland is planning to sell its hard coal stockpiles to Ukraine in order to raise cash to inject liquidity into the country's struggling state-owned coal miners, development minister Mateusz Morawiecki, said Monday. "There is a coal ...
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Utilities are burning less coal than they previously expected, a survey the US Surface Transportation Board conducted shows. During a Rail Energy Transportation Advisory Committee hearing Tuesday in Washington, committee member John Carr, ...
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US Central Appalachian coal producers and brokers are still hoping some kind of thermal spot market will develop with winter approaching, but many in the industry said this week they aren't holding out much hope. Market players continued ...
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Coal provides nearly two thirds of China's energy, but for mining companies, this winter could not be more chilly. The government has done its best to save the day, but it is not enough to force up the price of coal, even in the short ...
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The production and sales of coal declined in the first eight months in China, according to the China Coal Industry Association Sunday. China produced 2.52 billion tonnes of coal from January to August this year, down 1.4 percent from the ...
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US coal stockpiles essentially held steady at 141 million st in the week that ended Thursday, but are likely to begin declining in the coming weeks as coal burn increases with summer demand, according to Bentek Energy. Bentek, a unit of ...
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Illinois Basin market sentiment was mixed this week, as some participants said they see prices rising on heightened domestic demand, partly to rebuild stockpiles, while others took a persistently bearish view that increased production in ...
US coal stockpiles fell to 126 million st for the week ending Friday, down 32% from the five-year average, Bentek Energy said. Bentek, a unit of Platts, said lower coal production and higher coal consumption during the week meant US coal ...
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Weekly coal carloads originated by US railroads jumped 4.6% on a year-over-year basis in the week ended May 24, as both BNSF Railway and CSX showed strong gains in weekly coal deliveries, according to data from the Association of American ...
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Weekly US coal carloads for the week ending May 3 continue to improve, notching their eight consecutive week of year-over-year growth, the Association of American Railroads reported Thursday. Coal carloads totaled 112,361, down 0.8% from ...
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The top natural gas analyst at Jefferies raised his 2014 gas price forecast 8% Thursday, citing a much higher than anticipated winter price in the first quarter and the end of coal's ability to keep gas prices range-bound. "The era of too ...
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China's drive to transform its economy, which includes reducing the role of energy-intensive industries and paring steel capacity, is driving up coal inventories at key ports as demand across a variety of sectors weakens. Inventories at ...
Coal inventories at China's four main northern ports continued to increase as demand from downstream buyers weakened due to the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday, industry sources said. Coal stockpiles held at Qinhuangdao Port in Hebei ...
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Poor weather at Qinhuangdao and other coal export ports in northeast China have impeded some coal shipments to power plants along the Asian country's coastline, but well-covered Chinese end users were refraining from panic buying in the ...
Tags: Qinhuangdao, coal shipments, coastline