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Coal import via Kandla Port up 49.6% y-o-y in 2013-14

April 3: Coal imports via Kandla Port increased 49.6% to 6.08 million tons (mt) in 2013-14 compared to 4.06 mt in 2012-13, according to data available with ICMW.

For March 2014, however, coal imports via Kandla Port dropped 42.59% to 0.31 mt compared to 0.54 mt imported in the same month a year ago (March 2013). On a month-on-month basis too, there was a marginal decrease in coal imports via Kandla Port as against 0.32 mt during February 2014.