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As the rainy season in southern China restricted the demand for construction steel, rebar and wire rod prices ran weak in late June, according to the latest data from the National Bureau of Statistics
Despite hardships and headwinds due to the outbreak of COVID-19 in China, Huadian Coal Industry under China Huadian Corporation has achieved encouraging results in the first half of 2020, according to
Steel production and sales have resumed to normal and operated stably by May, while the profit of China's steel industry slumped sharply over January-May amid double squeezes from falling steel prices
The country's coal imports registered a drop of 29.7% to 48.84 million tonnes (Mt) in the April-June period of the ongoing financial year, according to industry data. India had imported 69.54 Mt of co
Russia registered a 6.29% year-on-year decline in coal exports to 87.98 million tonnes in the first six months this year, showed official data.
During the same period, coal output in the
Shanxi shipped 12.26 million tonnes of coal out of the province by railway in May, up 6.3% from a month earlier but slumping 54% from the same month in 2019.
In May, key state-owned mines
After stabilizing for about
two weeks, Chinese thermal coal prices picked up dramatically last week,
boosted by concerns of supply tightness during the peak demand season. Trading
activities revive
China's state economic planning body recently required relevant parties of long-term coal supply contracts to ensure no less than 80% of fulfillments, according to a document issued recently.
Participants reckoned China's coking coal market would keep stable in the days ahead, given tapering buying activities from coke plants.
With the seventh coke price hike in low chance to
Coking coal market continued heading up at China's main production areas during the past week, bolstered by low inventory and relatively smooth sales to coke producers. Yet, tapering upward strength o
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China's top coal mining group China Energy Investment Corporation, or CHN Energy, raised its monthly term contract prices of thermal coal for July delivery to a new high so far this year, market sourc
China's National Coal Mine Safety Administration warned of possible floods at coal mines alongside persistently strong rainfalls in South China and Southwest China.
Entering the rainy sea
Coal production of the 10 largest coal producers increased by 1.22% year on year in the first five months, according to data released by China National Coal Association.
Combined producti
China imported 189,200 tonnes of coke in May, surging 54.13% from a month ago, customs data showed.
The figure was also a sharp increase compared with only 2,147 tonnes in the same month
In the first six months, Mongolia's total exports amounted $2.2 billion, according to the Customs General Administration.
Mongolia's exports decreased by 40.6% or $1.5 billion in the firs
The Indonesian government set its coal benchmark price (HBA) for July at $52.16/t, down from $52.98/t last month, the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry said in a statement on July 3.
Thermal coal prices moved up rapidly at northern Chinese ports late this week, on the back of revived market confidence for higher buying demand and tight supply.
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Chinese miners expected coking coal prices to rise moderately in the coming days, gaining support from solid purchase from coke plants and ongoing tight control of import quotas.
Coke pro
Indonesian thermal coal prices kept range bound since late last week in the Chinese seaborne import market, although downward pressure was still looming large.
Trades were heard few and f
Chinese customs temporarily stopped customs clearing services for coking coal imports at Jingtang port in northern China's Hebei province, as its quotas for the whole 2020 have been almost used up, so
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