Blast Furnaces Trying To Secure Substitute Source For Metallurgical Coal-If decrease in metallurgical coal shipments from Qld lasts longer, they may reduce crude steel production-

摘要

After the turn of 2011, supply position of metallurgical coal including hard coking coal has been rapidly tightening. Affected by concentrated rainfalls of record heaviness that have been hitting Queensland, Australia, from end November, metallurgical coal shipments from Queensland have been declining and metallurgical coal consumers of every country including blast furnace steel producers of Japan are facing an imminent needs to secure substitute sources in order to fill up the declining shipments from Queensland.