Cargo re-trading, robust Chinese buying ignite met coal spot market in January-June

摘要

The volume of seaborne metallurgical coal spottrades into the Asia-Pacific region rose by 9.3%year-on-year to 30.95 million mt in the first sixmonths of 2016, driven by a higher numberof re-traded cargoes and stronger Chineseimport demand. Platts recorded a total of 408spot transactions in Asia-Pacific for met coal -comprising premium, second-tier, semi-hard,semi-soft coking coals and pulverized coalinjection coals - over January-June.