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India’s imported coal stocks at 9 ports up 2.43% w-o-w

December 29: India's imported coal stocks at nine ports – eight major and one private –stood at 7.877 million tons (mt) as on December 26, up 2.43% against a volume of 7.690 million tons (mt) as on December 19, according to provisional data available with ICMW.

The overall inventories of imported coal at Indian ports during the week ended December 26 increased as three major ports – Kolkata, Mumbai and Paradip and the private port of Mundra – reported an increase in coal inventories on a week-on-week basis. At three other major ports – New Mangalore and Vizag – coal stocks dropped on a week-on-week basis.

Coal stocks at Kandla, V O Chidambaranar and Mormugao remained at their previous levels. 

During the week ended December 26, coal stocks at the port of Paradip Port increased to 2.834 mt against 2.729 mt as on December 19. Of the total coal stocks at the port recorded during the week, steam coal’s share was at 1.799 and coking coal’s share was at 1.035 mt against a volume of 1.729 mt and 1.000 mt respectively as on December 19.

Imported coal stocks at Mundra Port during the week ended December 26 stood at 1.02, up from 0.84 mt on December 19. Of the total coal stocks of the port during the week, steam coal stood at 0.9 mt, up from 0.75 mt recorded in the week before. Coking coal stocks at the port as on December 26 stood at 0.12 mt against 0.09 mt recorded as on December 19.

Imported coal stocks inventories at Kolkata Port as on December 26 increased to 0.607 mt from 0.460 mt reported as on December 19. Of the total coal stocks as on December
26, steam coal stood at 0.285, a slight increase from 0.280 mt as on December 19 while coking coal stocks at the port as on December 26 increased sharply to 0.322 mt against 0.180 mt as on December 19.

At Vizag imported coal stocks slightly dropped to 1.200 mt against a volume of 1.400 tons recorded as on December 19. Of the total coal stocks at the port as on December 26, steam coal and coking coal stocks were at 0.800 mt and 0.400 mt respectively, down from 0.900 mt and 0.500 mt as on December 19.

The following table gives break-up of port-wise imported coal stocks on a week-on-week basis (in million tons):