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

April 20: India’s imported coal stocks at nine ports – eight major and one private –increased 1.30% in the week ended April 17 compared to the previous week as coal stocks at various ports increased or remained at the previous level, according to provisional data available with ICMW.

India’s imported coal stocks as on April 17 stood at 8.204 million tons (mt) as against a volume of 8.099 million tons (mt) recorded on April 10.

On April 17, coal stocks at Paradip Port stood at 2.856 mt, slightly down from 2.874 mt recorded on April 10. Of the total coal stocks at the port on April 17, shares of steam coal and coking coal stood at 1.489 mt and 1.367 mt respectively against 1.526 mt and 1.348  mt  recorded as on April 10 .

Imported coal stocks at Mundra and Vizag ports stood at their previous level of 0.500 mt and 1.500 mt respectively. 

Imported coal inventories at Kolkata Port rose slightly as on April 17 to 0.805 mt. Of the total coal stocks at the port, the share of non-coking coal stocks stood at 0.525 mt as on April 17, down slightly from 0.555 mt as on April 10 while the share of coking coal stocks at the port stood at 0.280 mt as on April 17, up slightly from 0.250 mt recorded on April 10.

The following table gives break-up of port-wise imported coal stocks at ports:(in million tons):

* Vizag Port had closed operations due to Cyclone HudHud