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• Seaborne trade: Checking up on the trends

  24 Mar 2016

  Multiple Problems? The ratio between global seaborne trade growth and GDP growth (the ‘mult... . ...Read More

• Energy Information Administration, coal fired plant

  24 Mar 2016

  A sizable jump Wednesday in Newcastle 6,000 kcal/kg NAR prompt-month prices of $4.25/mt from the l... . ...Read More

• Obama’s War on Coal Is Driving Up Energy Costs

  24 Mar 2016

  In June of 2013, former science adviser to the Obama administration Daniel Schrag told the New Yor... . ...Read More

• Inonesian 4200 GAR Coal Index Rose $0.12 OR, 0.44% week over week; Index closed at $27.19

  24 Mar 2016

  Average 5000 GAR coal index of Indonesian origin rose 0.21 percent week over week to averaging $38... . ...Read More

• Lack of Coal Linkage Blocks TTPS Expansion

  24 Mar 2016

  The expansion of 460 MW Talcher Thermal Power Station (TTPS) at Talcher has been inordinately dela... . ...Read More

• Coal block cry for state PSU

  24 Mar 2016

  Chief minister Naveen Patnaik has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to allot the Baitarani East C... . ...Read More

• Further softness seen in SA, Australian coal prices

  22 Mar 2016

  A further softness was witnessed in South African and Australian coal prices on March 21 along exp... . ...Read More

• Slowdown in steam coal imports is transitory: trader

  22 Mar 2016

  The nearly 10% decline in India’s steam coal imports during the first 11 months of 2015-16 i... . ...Read More

• International coal prices have bottomed out: KISPL

  22 Mar 2016

  International coal prices appear to have bottomed out and from here things should only turn for th... . ...Read More

• NTPC may give imported coal the short shrift in 2016-17

  22 Mar 2016

  Having significantly reduced its procurement of imported coal in 2015-16 due to sufficient availab... . ...Read More

• 2 south India cements cos float imported coal e-tenders

  22 Mar 2016

  Two cement-makers based out of south India have floated separate tenders to procure a total of 80,... . ...Read More

• Imported coal stock at 9 ports down 7.26% w-o-w

  22 Mar 2016

  India’s imported coal stocks at nine ports stood at 8.62 mt on March 18, 2016, down 7.26% co... . ...Read More

• India’s mineral production index up 1.2% y-o-y in Jan

  22 Mar 2016

  India’s mineral production index in January 2016 increased by 1.2% on a year-on-year basis w... . ...Read More

• Kandla Feb coking coal imports edge up 5% m-o-m

  22 Mar 2016

  Coking coal imports through the port of Kandla rose marginally by 4.68% to 332,034 tons in Februar... . ...Read More

• Kandla Port Feb pet coke imports up 8.03% m-o-m

  22 Mar 2016

  Imports of pet coke through Kandla Port increased 8.03% month-on-month to 308,457 tons in February... . ...Read More