India’s imported coal stocks at 9 ports edge up w-o-w
08 Oct 2014
October 8: India's imported coal stocks at nine ports – eight major and one private – increased 1.76% to 7.417 million tons (mt) as on October 3 from 7.289 mt as on September 26, according to provisional data available with ICMW.
The overall inventories of imported coal at Indian ports during the week ended October 1 increased slightly as stocks rose slightly at the five major ports of Paradip, New Mangalore, Mumbai, Mormugao and Kolkata 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 the private port of Mundra, inventories dropped on a week-on week basis.
During the week ended October 3, imported coal stocks at the port of Paradip increased 2.43% to 2.363 mt from 2.307 as on September 26. Of the total coal stocks at the port recorded during the week, steam coal’s share was at 1.092 mt and that of coking coal at 1.271 mt against a volume of 0.967 mt and 1.340 mt respectively seen in the previous week (September 26).
At Mundra Port, imported coal stocks fell almost 6% to 0.863 mt as on October 3 against 0.918 mt on September 26. During the week under review, stocks of imported steam coal at the port stood at 0.655 mt down from 0.695 mt seen last week while coking coal was at 0.208 mt against 0.223 mt recorded last week.
Inventories of imported coal at the port of Kolkata as on October 3 increased slightly to 0.498 mt against a volume of 0.491 mt as on September 26. As on October 3, the port’s imported steam coal inventories stood at 0.239 mt against 0.251 mt in the previous week while coking coal was at 0.259 mt in the current week against 0.240 mt reported in the previous week.
Of total coal stocks at Vizag Port on October 3, total stocks and share of steam and coking coal remained unchanged from that of September 26. On September 26, coal stocks at the port stood at 1 mt while steam coal during the week stood at 0.65 mt and coking coal at to 0.35 mt.
The following table gives break-up of port-wise imported coal stocks on a week-on-week basis (in million tons):
Port |
Stocks as on July 18 |
Stocks as on July 25 |
Stocks as on August 1 |
Stocks as on August 8 |
Stocks as on August 15 |
Stocks as on August 22 |
Stocks as on Aug 29 |
Stocks as on Sept 5 |
Stocks as on Sept 12 |
Stocks as on Sept 19 |
Stocks as on Sept 26 |
Stocks as on Oct 3 |
Kandla |
0.134 |
0.134 |
0.134 |
0.134 |
0.191 |
0.191 |
0.191 |
0.191 |
0.191 |
0.191 |
0.191 |
0.191 |
VoC |
0.862 |
0.828 |
0.868 |
0.861 |
1.000 |
0.967 |
0.970 |
0.995 |
1.053 |
1.022 |
1.022 |
1.022 |
NMPT |
1.110 |
1.110 |
0.970 |
1.020 |
0.900 |
1.100 |
1.00 |
1.000 |
1.160 |
1.140 |
1.130 |
1.221 |
Mundra |
1.144 |
1.301 |
1.099 |
0.987 |
0.904 |
0.830 |
0.921 |
0.969 |
0.930 |
0.094 |
0.918 |
0.863 |
Mumbai |
0.112 |
0.142 |
0.142 |
0.161 |
0.161 |
0.145 |
0.111 |
0.112 |
0.116 |
0.094 |
0.107 |
0.130 |
Kolkata |
0.360 |
0.382 |
0.463 |
0.453 |
0.445 |
0.460 |
0.505 |
0.569 |
0.542 |
0.550 |
0.491 |
0.498 |
Mormugao |
0.146 |
0.112 |
0.090 |
0.155 |
0.155 |
0.104 |
0.104 |
0.147 |
0.148 |
0.132 |
0.123 |
0.129** |
Paradip |
1.513 |
1.447 |
1.510 |
1.746 |
1.789 |
1.845 |
1.948 |
1.943 |
2.203 |
2.201 |
2.307 |
2.363 |
Vizag |
- |
- |
- |
0.700 |
0.700 |
0.350 |
0.700 |
0.700 |
0.700 |
1.000 |
1.000 |
1.000 |
Total |
5.381 |
5.456 |
5.276 |
6.217 |
6.245 |
5.992 |
6.450 |
6.626 |
7.043 |
7.252 |
7.289 |
7.417 |
** as on October 7 instead of October 3, 2014