COKING COAL DAILY: Seaborne premium prices plunge while mills become sellers

April 24, 2020 / www.metalbulletin.com / Article Link

Seaborne coking coal prices fell across the board on Thursday April 23, with steel mills outside of China grappling with poor downstream conditions and turning to metallurgical coal sellers as a result, sources said.

Fastmarkets indices
Premium hard coking coal, fob DBCT: $120.36 per tonne, down $3.66 per tonne
Premium hard coking coal, cfr Jingtang: $129.23 per tonne, down $6.47 per tonne
Hard coking coal, fob DBCT: $114.01 per tonne, down $1 per tonne
Hard coking coal, cfr Jingtang: $121.31 per tonne, down $1.40 per tonne

A 75,000-tonne early-May-laycan vessel of premium mid-vol hard coking coal was heard sold to a Chinese trader by an Indian steel mill at $110.50 per tonne fob Australia. The sale was a result of depressed demand from the steel mill following the lockdown in India and resulting build-up of steel inventories due to lack of downstream...

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