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CIL’s Jan washed coking coal output down 26% y-o-y

March 2: Washed coking coal production by Coal India Limited for the month of January 2015 stood at 0.163 million tons (mt), down 26.24% from 0.221 mt produced in the same month of 2014, according to provisional data available with ICMW.

On a month-on-month basis, CIL’s washed coking coal production in January fell from 0.190 mt in December 2014, data revealed.

CIL’s washed coking coal output for the month of January was down from the targeted 0.234 mt. Annual target for washed coking coal production in CIL is set at 2.69 mt for 2014-15.

In the April-December period of 2014-15, CIL’s washed coking coal production stood at 1.72 mt, down from 1.98 mt recorded in the same period of the last fiscal (2013-14).