Indian coking coal imports moving through 12 key state-controlled ports totalled 29.3mn t in the first six months of the 2019-20 fiscal year starting 1 April, an increase of 15pc from a year earlier despite weakness in the steel sector. Coking coal imports are on track to slightly overtake total...

Houston — The US Energy Information Administration is forecasting a 17% decline in fourth-quarter coal production from the year-ago period, according to the agency's monthly Short-Term Energy Outlook. The report, issued Tuesday, forecasts total US coal production to sink to 159 million...

Only an inept government would allow the legal status of an industry that is vital to national power generation and contributes significantly to tax revenue to remain in limbo.But imbroglio is truly the biggest problem that seven major coal mining companies are now facing after deliberations on the...

South Africa is pushing coal producers to cut prices to help save Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., the indebted power utility that threatens to unravel the country’s finances. “At these prices of electricity, this economy is going to collapse,” Mineral and Energy Resources Minister...

London — Dutch coal-fired generation fell to negligible levels over the summer as gas-fired output doubles on year, data analyzed by S&P Global Platts showed Wednesday. Coal plant output averaged 0.5 GW in September, with gas generation at 3.6 GW. "Coal-fired generation has...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China will aim to shut a total of 8.66 gigawatts (GW) of obsolete coal-fired power capacity by the end of this year, its energy regulator said, part of its efforts to curb smog and greenhouse gas emissions. The National Energy Administration didn’t say how much of the...

Singapore — China has announced that it will remove the coal-electricity price linkage mechanism starting January 1, a move that would be likely to further dampen domestic thermal coal prices, market sources said Friday. According to a State Council statement released Thursday, China will...

MANILA (Reuters) - Chinese coking coal futures slipped on Friday and logged their biggest weekly loss since November 2018, as slowing economic growth and a bruising U.S.-China trade war clouded demand outlook for the steelmaking raw material. Trading volumes were thin, however, in China’s...

JASTRZEBIE ZDROJ, Poland (Reuters) - Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party plans to introduce legislation that will allow the government to open new coal mines without the approval of local authorities, its energy minister said on Wednesday. PiS wants to build new mines as it expects...

South African thermal coal exports via the Richards Bay export hub will continue to languish at around 73m tonnes/year unless benchmark export prices rise at least 20% from current levels, the CEO of miner Canyon Coal said. Shipments from Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT) – which account...