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PCI coal imports via Kolkata down 23% in Sept m-o-m

October 24: PCI coal imports through the port of Kolkata dropped 22.61% to 44,865 tons in September 2014 against 57,979 tons in August, as per provisional information available with ICMW.

Imports of the material amounted to 31,440 tons in September 2013 while, for the first six months of the current fiscal, the volumes stood at 236,041 tons against 111,980 tons recorded for the same period in the previous fiscal.

Total PCI imports via Kolkata Port stood at 397,790 tons for the entire fiscal of 2013-14.

Following are the details of PCI coal imports via Kolkata Port:

In September, 43,200 tons arrived from Australia in a band of Rs 6,175 – Rs 7,169 ($100-116) per ton, 1,650 tons from South Africa at a unit price of Rs 6,496 ($106) while 15 tons came from Mozambique at a unit price of Rs 1,493 ($24).

In August, imports comprised 50,179 tons from Australia in a band of Rs 6,389 – Rs 7,867 ($105-128) per ton, while the balance 7,800 tons arrived from South Africa in a range of Rs 6,559 – Rs 6,995 ($106-114) per ton.