China’s thermal coal import falls gather pace

摘要

Chinese imports of thermal coal dropped by more than 36pcyear on year in December, compounding sharp declines eachmonth in 2015. Receipts of non-coking bituminous thermal, subbituminousand lignite coal of 10.98mn t in December weredown by 6.26mn t from a year earlier, according to customsdata. But imports last month were up by 709,000t fromNovember, as cold weather in China boosted coal demandfor heating.