Weekly Us coal carrier departures total 32, down four on week: cFlow

摘要

Weekly US coal carrier departures totaled 32 in the week ended September 14, down four departures from the previous week, data from cFlow, Platts trade flow software, showed. The departing laden and part-laden ships carried almost 2 million dwt, down about 5% from the week before. US Gulf Coast departures dropped to their lowest level of 11 since the week ended July 14 when there were four departures. West Coast departures, on the other hand, had eight, the most in five weeks. From the Gulf, ships carried 530,431 dwt on the 11 departing ships, compared with 20 ships carrying 1.2 million dwt the week before. Of the 11 departures, three were going toward ports in the North Atlantic, two each to Brazil and Central America and one each to the Black Sea, the Caribbean and North Asia.