SteelMint assessed that India’s weekly Coal import rose by 3.6% to around 2.6 MnT at the week ended on 18 Jan, 2014. 

Out of the total imported Coal, around 65.5% was Non-coking, about 30.2% was Coking Coal and around 4.2% were others (Coke/Anthracite).

Considering 33 major and minor Indian ports, Mundra has imported maximum quantity i.e. around 0.48 MnT of Coal in Week 3. The received Coal grades were Non-coking, imported from Indonesia. Contribution of quantity was given by Adani Enterprises and Adani Power.

Most of the Coal is imported from Indonesia, South Africa, Australia & USA. Out of the total weekly imports, India has imported 1.4 MnT of power-generating thermal Coal from Indonesia, about 0.79 MnT of Coking Coal from Australia, South Africa &USA. Also, imported about 0.11 MnT of Coke from China & Japan.

SteelMint assessed that Torrent Power and Adani Enterprises are the major importers of Non-coking Coal last week. Torrent Power has imported about 0.17 MnT of Non-coking Coal from Australia and Adani Enterprises has imported around 0.16 MnT from Indonesia. The major importer of Coking Coal was SAIL, which has imported around 0.25 MnT of Coal majorly from Australia.

Tata Steels have imported around 0.16 MnT of Coking Coal from Australia in third week of 2014.

The ports considered are: Dahej, Mormugao, Navlakhi, Mundra, Mumbai, New Mangalore, Hazira, Kandla, Bedi, Porbander, Dahanu, Dharmatar PnP, Dharamtar Ispat, Tuticorin, Jaigarh, Dighi, Revdanda, Magdalla, Pipavav GPPL, UTCL- Pipavav, Sanghi, Sikka, Okha, Muldwarka, Dhamra, Ennore, Gangavaram, Haldia, Krishnapatnam, Kakinada, Paradip, Vizag and Karaikal.