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PCI imports via Kolkata down 48% in Oct m-o-m

26 Nov 2014

November 26: PCI coal imports through the port of Kolkata dropped 47.78% to 23,425 tons in October 2014 against a volume of 44,865 tons in September, as per provisional information available with ICMW.

Imports of the material amounted to 24,251 tons in October 2013 while, for the first seven months of the current fiscal, the volumes stood at 304,331 tons against 167,671 tons recorded for the same period in the previous fiscal.

Total PCI imports via Kolkata Port stood at 397,790 tons for the entire fiscal of 2013-14.

Following are the details of PCI coal imports via Kolkata Port:

Month

2013-14 (in tons)

2014-15 (in tons)

April

2,000

56,828

May

39,037

32,136

June

22,952

64,081

July

8,806

25,017

August

39,185

57,979

September

31,440

44,865

October

24,251

23,425

November

49,434

 

December

56,085

 

January

31,481

 

February

47,830

 

March

45,289

 

Total

397,790

304,331

In October, all the consignments arrived from Australia in a price band of Rs 6,608 – Rs 6,667 ($106-107) per ton.

In September, 43,200 tons arrived from Australia in a band of Rs 6,175 – Rs 7,169 ($100-116) per ton, 1,650 tons from South Africa at an unit price of Rs 6,496 ($106) while 15 tons came from Mozambique at a unit price of Rs 1,493 ($24).