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Feb PCI imports via Kolkata decrease 37% m-o-m

March 18: PCI coal imports through the port of Kolkata dropped 37.01% to 60,916 tons in February 2015 against a volume of 96,719 tons in January 2015, as per provisional information available with ICMW.

Imports of the material amounted to 47,830 tons in February 2014 while, for the first 11 months of the current fiscal, the volumes stood at 554,004 tons against 352,501 tons recorded for the same period in the previous fiscal.

Total PCI imports via Kolkata Port stood at 397,790 tons for the entire fiscal of 2013-14.

Following are the details of PCI coal imports via Kolkata Port:

In February 2015, 59,266 tons arrived from Australia in a band of Rs 6,255 – Rs 7,666 ($100-122) per ton and 1,650 tons from South Africa at a price of Rs 6,233 ($100) per ton.

In January, 78,036 tons arrived from Australia in a band of Rs 6,362 – Rs 6,865 ($102-109) per ton and 18,683 tons from South Africa at a price range of Rs 6,233 – 6,646 ($98-104) per ton.