China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has announced that in June this year coal shipments by Chinese railways amounted to 160 million mt, down 14.1 percent year on year, while in the January-June period coal shipments totaled 1.02 billion mt, down 11.1 percent year on year.
In the January-June period this year, the railway line from Datong, Shanxi Province to Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province transported 210 million mt of coal, down 8.5 percent, while the railway line from Houma, Shanxi to Yueshan, Henan transported 83.30 million mt of coal, down 9.7 percent, both year on year.