Thursday, March 31, 2011
KPCL to import one million tons of 6300 GAD COAL
Thu, March, 2011
Karnataka Power Corporation a state utility of Karnataka, India called for open tender for supply of one million tons of 6300 Kcal/kg coal on air dried basis on delivered basis. The delivery of first cargo should starts from June this year. The supplier must supply atleast 100,000 MT of every month starting from June 2011.
This coal supply is destined for its 1,720MW Raichur thermal power station(RTPS) in Raichur Karnataka. Due to short of domestic coal linkage to RTPS, the KPCL has to resort to higher usage of imported coal.
Earlier in 2010 due to acute shortage of domestic coal RTPS has concluded two imported coal tenders of 900K MTs and 500K mts respectively.
Both the tenders have been bagged by Nagpur based Gupta Coal Corporation, an Indian coal trading company and the contracts are under execution. According to a coal trader based in Karnataka, the existing tender was awarded at US$ 67 per MT on delivered basis for 6300 GAD kacal/kg coal with 16 percent total moisture.
The current Indonesian coal prices with 6300 kcal/kg on air dried basis and 16 percent is being offered high eighties from medium scale suppliers are high nineties or hundred plus from premium scale suppliers.
A prorata penalties are applicable for Gross calorific value and total sulphur and weight basis penalties are applicable for Ash content, Total Moisture and size.
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