No met coke imports via V O Chidambaranar in December
12 Jan 2016
There were no met coke imports via VO Chidambaranar Port (Tuticorin Port) in December 2015, according to provisional data available with ICMW. A volume of 419 tons of the material was imported via this port in November 2015.
For the first nine months (April-December) of the current fiscal (2015-16), met coke imports via this port stood at 3,774 tons while 413 tons had been imported in the same period of the previous fiscal (2014-15).
The following table contains details of imports of met coke via VO Chidambaranar Port (Tuticorin Port) in FY2014-15 and FY2015-16:
Month |
2015-16 (in tons) |
2014-15 (in tons) |
April |
412 |
|
May |
767 |
|
June |
421 |
|
July |
452 |
|
August |
426 |
|
September |
467 |
|
October |
410 |
222 |
November |
419 |
|
December |
|
191 |
January |
|
219 |
February |
|
|
March |
|
605 |
Total (Apr-Dec) |
3,774 |
413 |
Total (Apr-Mar) |
3,774 |
1,237 |
In November 2015, out of the entire volume of 419 tons, 304 tons came in from China at a price range of Rs 14,672-Rs 17,337 ($222-$260) per ton while import details of 115 tons were not available.