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India’s imported coal stocks at 9 ports up 2.91% w-o-w

December 15: India's imported coal stocks at nine ports – eight major and one private – edged up by 2.91% to 7.697 million tons (mt) as on December 12, against a volume of 7.479 mt as on December 5, according to provisional data available with ICMW.

The overall inventories of imported coal at Indian ports during the week ended December 12 edged up as coal stocks at Paradip, Mumbai and Vizag port edged up on week-on week basis while coal stocks at three major ports-Kandla, V O Chidambaranar , New Mangalore and one private port Mundra remained it its previous level.

Coal stocks at two major ports- Kolkata and Mormugao dropped very lightly on a week-on week basis.

During the week ended December 12, imported coal stocks at the port of Paradip Port increased sharply to 2.663 mt against a volume of 2.518 mt recorded on December 5. Of the total coal stocks at the port recorded during the week, steam coal’s share was at 1.678 mt and coking coal’s share stood at 0.985 mt against a volume of 1.572 mt and 0.981 mt respectively as on December 5.

Imported coal stocks at Mundra Port during the Week ended December 12 remained at the same level with that of December 5. As on December 5, the port’s coal stocks stood at 0.770 mt.

Imported coal stocks inventories at Kolkata Port as on December 12, dropped slightly to 0.540 mt from 0.541 mt as on December 5. Of the total coal stocks as on December 12,
steam coal stocks of the port stood at 0.336 mt against a volume of 0.285 mt as on December 5 while the coking coal stocks of the port as on December 12 was at 0.204 mt down from 0.256 mt recorded as on December 5.

The coal stock position at Vizag Port increased to 1.4 mt as on December 12 from 1.3 mt recorded as on December 5. During the week under review, the port’s steam coal stocks stood at 0.90 mt up from 0.85 mt recorded in the week before while coking coal stocks at the port too increased to 0.50 mt during the week under review from previous level of 0.45 mt, 

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