Seaborne coking coal prices stayed large stable in both the cfr and fob markets on Tuesday July 13 because buying interest was weak in the face of elevated offer prices, market sources told Fastmarkets.
Fastmarkets indices
Premium hard coking coal, fob DBCT: $210.27 per tonne, down by $0.26 per tonne
Premium hard coking coal, cfr Jingtang: $307.98 per tonne, down by $0.82 per tonne
Hard coking coal, fob DBCT: $174.92 per tonne, unchanged
Hard coking coal, cfr Jingtang: $267.25 per tonne, down by $0.80 per tonne
The coke prices in China's domestic market started to decrease over the week July 6-13, with some small and mid-sized steel mills proposing cuts in their procurement prices for domestic coke.
The Rizhao mill in...