South Korea January coal imports up 3pct

Friday, 17 Feb 2012

South Korea's imports of coal in January rose 3.8 percent to 10.71 million tonnes from 10.32 million tonnes a year earlier, customs data showed on Wednesday.

Details of January imports are as follows

	Jan '12	Price	Jan '11	Price
Australia	3,761,874	161.01	3,618,429	132.98
Indonesia	3,236,837	96.46	3,943,822	85.97
Canada	1,055,996	193.90	867,003	148.93
S. Africa	1,054,408	128.12	137,476	89.82
Russia	966,939	124.15	760,921	118.71
U.S.	414,786	230.24	419,356	232.34
China	198,533	169.62	386,113	121.76
Malaysia	22,000	90.23		_
Colombia		-	165,025	105.81
Cyprus		-	23,340	216.07

Price in USD

(Sourced from Reuters)