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India’s imported coal stocks at 9 ports edge up w-o-w

September 29: India's imported coal stocks at nine ports – eight major and one private – increased slightly to 7.289 million tons (mt) as on September 26 against a volume of 7.252 mt as on September 19, according to provisional data available with ICMW.

The overall inventories of imported coal at Indian ports during the week ended September 26 increased slightly as stocks rose only at one major port, Paradip, on a week-on week basis while that at three other major ports, Vizag, Kandla and V O Chidambaranar, remained at their previous levels.

At other major ports, including the private port of Mundra, inventories dropped on a week-on week basis.

During the week ended September 26, imported coal stocks at the port of Paradip increased 4.82% to 2.307 from 2.201 as on September 19. Of the total coal stocks at the port recorded during the week, steam coal’s share was at 0.967 mt and coking coal’s at 1.340 mt against a volume of 0.822 mt and 1.379 mt respectively seen in the previous week.

At Mundra Port, imported coal stocks fell slightly to 0.918 mt on September 26 against 0.918 mt on September 19. During the week under review, stocks of imported steam coal at the port stood at 0.695 mt up from 0.680 mt seen last week while coking coal was at 0.223 mt against 0.242 mt recorded last week. 

Inventories of imported coal at the port of Kolkata as on September 26 fell almost 11% to 0.491 mt against a volume of 0.550 mt on September 12. As on September 26, the port’s imported steam coal inventories stood at 0.250 mt against a volume of 0.314 mt in the previous week while coking coal during the current week stood at 0.239 mt against 0.237 mt on September 19.

The total coal stocks at Vizag Port on September 26 remained unchanged at 1 mt while steam coal during the week fell to 0.65 mt from 0.70 mt seen in the previous week. During the current week coking coal increased slightly to 0.35 mt against a volume of 0.30 mt in the week before.

The following table gives break-up of port-wise imported coal stocks on a week-on-week basis (in million tons):