The seaborne premium hard coking coal cfr price and hard coking coal fob price soared on Thursday September 2 due to sustained tight supply. And some Chinese coke producers proposed the ninth round of price hikes since the start of August.
Fastmarkets indices
Premium hard coking coal, cfr Jingtang: $443.02 per tonne, up $11.99 per tonne
Hard coking coal, cfr Jingtang: $403.85 per tonne, up $7.33 per tonne
Premium hard coking coal, fob DBCT: $262.11 per tonne, up $2.09 per tonne
Hard coking coal, fob DBCT: $225.39 per tonne, up $10.49 per tonne
In the cfr market, the offer price for second-tier hard coking coal Affinity was $410 per tonne cfr China, a trading source in Australia heard on late Wednesday September 1.
With the premium hard...