Asian met coal restocking continues, prices mostly flat

摘要

The winter or pre-Lunar New Yearmetallurgical coal restocking drive continuedMonday in China — Asia-Pacific’s largest spotmarket — with trades recorded in almost everycategory, from prime hard coking coal to tiertwopulverized coal injection material.Platts assessed premium low-vol hardcoking coal unchanged from Thursday at$81/mt CFR China Monday. This equated to$73.70/mt FOB Australia after accounting forPanamax freight. Second-tier material wasassessed 25 cents higher from Thursdayat $78.75/mt CFR China Monday. Panamaxfreight from Australia to China was assessedat $5.05/mt.