PSU PRESS RELEASE
Coal imports fell by 25 percent to 14 point 31 MT in December
New Delhi . Coal imports fell by 25% to 14.31 million tonnes in December, due to higher availability of domestic fuel. The country had imported 19.15 million tonnes of coal in December 2015. "Coal import (all type of coals) in December 2016 stood at 14.31 million tonnes (provisional) against 19.15 MT in December 2015," mjunction, an online procurement and sales platform floated jointly by state-run SAIL and Tata Steel said.
The coal import in November, 2016 was at 12.51 MT. "...year-on-year imports were lower because public sector power generation companies have virtually stopped buying imported coal as they are getting almost sufficient supplies of domestic coal," mjunction CEO Vinaya Varma told PTI
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