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• Polish Power Gets Cleaner as Cheaper Nordic Flows Cut Coal Burn

  16 Jan 2015

  Poland used less coal for power generation last year as imports of cheaper electricity from Sweden... . ...Read More

• Queensland taxpayers subsidised Abbot Point coal port expansion by up to $2bn

  16 Jan 2015

    Queensland taxpayers have subsidised the Abbot Point coal port expansion to the tune of a... . ...Read More

• Australia steam coal spurts amidst subdued trend

  15 Jan 2015

  January 15: Prices of Australian steam coal jumped sharply on January 14 even as South African coa... . ...Read More

• Coal prices likely to remain soft: Trader

  15 Jan 2015

  January 15: Prices of coal in international markets are likely to see a stable-to-negative trend i... . ...Read More

• ‘India’s coal imports may fall in next 2 quarters’

  15 Jan 2015

  January 15: India’s coal imports may be at a lower ebb in the current quarter (January-March... . ...Read More

• Reserve Bank surprises with early rate cut

  15 Jan 2015

  January 15: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut its repo interest rate by 25 basis points to 7.75%... . ...Read More

• Indian power cos’ Dec coal receipts up 2.34% m-o-m

  15 Jan 2015

  January 15: Coal receipts by India’s power utilities stood at 46.83 million tons (mt) in Dec... . ...Read More

• CIL, SCCL Dec despatches to power cos up 2.18%

  15 Jan 2015

  January 15: Despatches of coal by domestic miners Coal India Ltd (CIL) and Singareni Collieries Co... . ...Read More

• MoC allows bidders to visit mine, study land papers

  15 Jan 2015

  January 15: In an effort to clear any uncertainty whatsoever, the Ministry of Coal has urged all t... . ...Read More

• Vizag steam coal imports up 15% in Dec m-o-m

  15 Jan 2015

  January 15: Steam coal imports through the port of Vizag increased 14.97% to 1,012,383 tons in Dec... . ...Read More

• Dec coking coal imports via Vizag up 86% m-o-m

  15 Jan 2015

  January 15: Coking coal imports through the port of Vizag increased 85.76% to 787,992 tons in Dece... . ...Read More

• No met coke imports through Vizag for 2 months

  15 Jan 2015

  January 15: There were no met coke imports through Vizag Port in December 2014, as per provisional... . ...Read More

• December PCI imports via Vizag spurt m-o-m

  15 Jan 2015

  January 15: A much higher volume of 118,597 tons of PCI coal was imported through Vizag Port in De... . ...Read More

• Pet coke imports via Vizag spurt 96% in Dec

  15 Jan 2015

  January 15: Pet coke imports through Vizag Port increased sharply by 95.78% to 59,757 tons in Dece... . ...Read More

• Dec anthracite imports via Vizag at 5,000 tons

  15 Jan 2015

  January 15: Anthracite coal imports through the port of Vizag in December 2014 were at 5,000 tons ... . ...Read More