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China October coal imports from Dalrymple Bay up 17% m-o-m

China’s coal imports from the Dalrymple Bay facility in Australia to 1.32 million tonnes in October, up 17% from 1.13 million tonnes in September, according to shipping data for the Australian terminal released November 19.

In the January-October period, Dalrymple Bay terminal has shipped 10.36 million tonnes of coal exports to China, and up marginally from 10.12 million tonnes for the comparable 2014 period.

India
Dalrymple Bay coal terminal's exports to India slumped dramatically in October to just 266,700 tonnes compared with 873,500 tonnes in September and an on-month decline of 228%.

Last month's shipments to India from the terminal were the lowest recorded in the past two years.

In October 2014, India's offtake of coal exports from the Queensland shipment facility was 735,000 tonnes.

India's consumption of Dalrymple Bay coal shipments peaked this year in February at 1.26 million tonnes, according to terminal shipping data.

For the year to date, Indian offtake of thermal and metallurgical coal exports from the Queensland terminal are 8.26 million tonnes, and down from 9.1 million tonnes for the January-October 2014 period.

Coal producers Anglo American, Glencore, Peabody and Rio Tinto are among the users of Dalrymple Bay coal terminal which exports mostly metallurgical coal, and some thermal coal.

Japan
Japan was the destination for 1.34 million tonnes of Dalrymple Bay terminal coal shipments last month, up 21% on 1.11 million tonnes in September, said the terminal data.

For the first 10 months of 2015 the Asian country has received 12.25 million tonnes from the terminal, and 1 million tonnes less than for the corresponding 2014 period.

South Korea
South Korean-bound ships took delivery of 773,000 tonnes of Dalrymple Bay coal exports last month, and down 27% from September's shipments to the country of 1.06 million tonnes.

Dalrymple Bay terminal has shipped 9.76 million tonnes of coal exports to South Korea over the January-October period, and for the comparable 2014 period the volume was 8.99 million tonnes.

The Queensland coal terminal said it shipped 5.26 million tonnes of coal exports on 50 ships in the month of October, said the data.

The ship queue for Dalrymple Bay coal terminal in central Queensland has remained relatively low, and stood at five ships on November 19, said the terminal's operator DBCT Management in a separate report.

Coal cargo was available for only one of these five vessels, and at the end of October the terminal's vessel queue comprised four ships, according to terminal data.

source: http://en.sxcoal.com