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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Indonesia becomes China largest coal supplier

Wednesday, 02 Nov 2011

Indonesia has become China largest coal supplier with 6.6761 million tonnes of the fuel exported to China in September accounting for 34.92% of China total coal imports.

In the first three quarters of the current year, China imported a total of 42.7787 million tonnes of coal from Indonesia occupying 34.66% of China total coal imports.

Statistics also show that China coal imports stood at 19.12 million tonnes in September, the country highest monthly intake on record. The import volume from Australia was 3.4431 million tonnes taking up 18.01% of China’s total coal imports in the month, coal imports from Mongolia reached 2.3236 million tonnes accounting for 6.93%.

(source: steelhome)

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