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31 Mar 2016
India’s imports of coal from the Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT) in South Africa stood at 2,729,388 tons in February 2016, showing an increase of 2.77% compared to 2,655,930 tons imported in February 2015, according to data available with ICMW.
On a month-on-month basis, the imports were down 18.30% compared to 3,340,581 tons imported in January 2016, the data revealed.
India accounted for as much as 44.08% of the total coal exported through the terminal in February 2016. In fact, India accounted for as much as 47.48% of the total 75.37 million tons (mt) of coal exported through RBCT in 2015 as its total imports stood at 35.79 mt during the year.
The total imports of the fuel by India from RBCT in the first 11 months of the current fiscal of 2015-16 (April-February) stood at 34.551 mt, up 13.48% as compared to 30.446 mt imported during the same period of 2014-15.
Following table gives details of India's monthly coal imports from RBCT in 2016, 2015 and 2014 (in tons):
|
Month |
2016 |
2015 |
2014 |
|
January |
3,340,581 |
2,169,615 |
1,220,363 |
|
February |
2,729,388 |
2,655,930 |
1,482,153 |
|
March |
|
3,095,169 |
1,853,214 |
|
April |
|
2,906,146 |
2,649,303 |
|
May |
|
4,468,330 |
3,156,384 |
|
June |
|
3,086,004 |
2,500,020 |
|
July |
|
3,140,409 |
2,861,772 |
|
August |
|
2,289,392 |
2,590,690 |
|
September |
|
2,209,969 |
2,252,349 |
|
October |
|
3,617,443 |
3,661,610 |
|
November |
|
3,201,389 |
2,421,908 |
|
December |
|
2,947,672 |
35,22,697 |
|
Total (in calendar year Jan-Dec) |
6,069,969 |
357,87,468 |
301,72,463 |