Login Register Contact Us
Welcome to Linkage e-Auctions Welcome to Coal Trading Portal

Coal news and updates

Pet coke imports via Vizag increase 174% m-o-m in Jan

25 Feb 2014

February 25: Pet coke imports through the port of Vizag showed a huge increase of 174% to 57,773 tons in January 2014 against 21,048 tons reported in December 2013, according to provisional information available with ICMW.

With this, imports of PCI coal in the first 10 months of 2013-14 stood at 822,397 tons against 548,057 tons recorded during the corresponding period of 2012-13.

Following is the monthly break-up of pet coke imports via Vizag Port in 2012-13 & 2013-14:

Month

2012-13 (in tons)

2013-14 (in tons)

April

35,360

85,466

May

71,514

73,449

June

30,566

24,578

July

79,682

74,041

August

43,089

213,939

September

43,969

97,300

October

118,922

88,768 

November

62,655

86,035  

December

22,374

21,048

January

39,926

57,773

February

53,427

 

March

116,082

 

Total

717,566

822,397

In January 2014, 32,991 tons arrived from Kuwait at a unit price of Rs 13,549 ($218) while 24,782 tons came in from China in a range of Rs 15,160 – Rs 11,322 ($243-$182) per ton.

In December, the consignment arrived from Indonesia at a unit price of Rs 14,469 ($262).