Imported coal stocks at 9 ports remain flat w-o-w
15 Apr 2016
India’s imported coal stocks at nine ports stood at 8.48 mt on April 15, 2016, almost same compared to 8.45 mt as on April 8, 2016, according to provisional data available with ICMW. The compiled ports were Mumbai, New Mangalore, Haldia, Marmagao, Paradip, Vizag, Krishnapatnam, Dhamra and Pipavav.
The highest volume of coal stocks was available at Paradip Port, at 2.13 mt, as on April 15, almost same compared to 2.20 mt on April 8. At Krishnapatnam Port, the stocks increased 3.03% to 1.70 mt in the second week of April from 1.65 mt in the previous week.
A significant growth was registered by Vizag Port, which increased 6.65% to 0.80 mt on April 15 as against 0.75 mt on April 8. A 3.23% decrease was noticed at Marmagoa Port to 0.45 mt on April 15 from 0.46 mt on April 8.
Coal stocks at Pipavav and Kolkata ports remained unchanged.
The following table gives port-wise break-up of imported coal stocks at various ports:
Port |
(in million tons) |
|||
As on April 15, 2016 |
As on April 8, 2016 |
As on September 15, 2015 |
As on April 17, 2015 |
|
KANDLA |
NA |
NA |
0.392 |
0.233 |
VOC |
NA |
NA |
1.200 |
1.079 |
NEW MANGALORE |
0.610 |
0.600 |
0.953 |
0.950 |
MUNDRA |
NA |
NA |
2.500 |
0.500 |
MUMBAI |
0.040 |
0.040 |
0.147 |
0.226 |
KOLKATA |
0.970 |
0.970 |
1.191 |
0.805 |
MARMAGOA |
0.450 |
0.465 |
0.134 |
0.055 |
PARADIP |
2.131 |
2.231 |
2.394 |
2.856 |
VIZAG |
0.800 |
0.750 |
1.700 |
1.500 |
KRISHNAPATNAM |
1.700 |
1.650 |
2.800 |
NA |
PIPAVAV |
0.750 |
0.750 |
|
|
DHAMRA |
1.035 |
1.100 |
|
|
TOTAL |
8.486 |
8.456 |
13.411 |
8.204 |