The seaborne coking coal market had a muted start to the week with many participants already in a holiday mood ahead of a weeklong break in China for the Chinese New Year.
"There was a slew of transactions last week since Chinese end-users had not been procuring materials in the seaborne market in a while but it has been interrupted by the upcoming holiday," a southern Chinese end-user source told Metal Bulletin on Monday February 12. China will break for a week from Thursday.Late last week, Chinese media, citing a local government document, reported that...