Positivity continues to sustain US coking coal market

摘要

Buoyed by the possibility and reality of higherdomestic settlements for 2019 supply with its US steelmaking customers, coking coal producers continue togauge the staying power of the export market.Ongoing strength in the seaborne market has been abeneficial negotiating tool on the domestic front anda money-making boon on the financial front.It has been the ‘Perfect Storm’ of 2015 negativity inreverse. The damage done during those dark days of adownturn are now actually proving advantageous forUS suppliers.