COKING COAL DAILY: Seaborne premium hard coking coal prices diverge in fob, cfr market

The premium hard coking coal price slipped slightly in the fob market after both sellers and buyers adopted a 'wait-and-see' attitude while the cfr market continued to climb up amid limited tradable seaborne resources in China on Thursday April 15, sources said.

Fastmarkets indices
Premium hard coking coal, fob DBCT: $112.94 per tonne, down $0.24 per tonne
Premium hard coking coal, cfr Jingtang: $220.07 per tonne, up $1.20 per tonne
Hard coking coal, fob DBCT: $105.62 per tonne, down $0.50 per tonne
Hard coking coal, cfr Jingtang: $200.38 per tonne, down $0.77 per tonne

In the cfr China market, large trading houses with a few vessels of north American hard coking coal...

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