Turkey's coking coal imports down 8.5 percent in January-September

Wednesday, 23 November 2016 14:47:44 (GMT+3)   |   Istanbul
       

In September this year, Turkey's coking coal imports totaled 285,948 mt, falling by 60 percent compared to the same month of the previous year, according to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK). Meanwhile, the value of these imports was $26 million, down 62.6 percent year on year.


 
In the first nine months, Turkey's coking coal imports decreased by 8.5 percent to 3.67 million mt, while the value of these imports decreased by 26 percent to $327.3 million, both year on year.
 
In the given period, Turkey's coking coal imports from Australia amounted to 1,758,101 mt, while coking coal imports from the US totaled 873,281 mt.
 
Turkey's coking coal import sources in the January-September period of this year:

 

Country

Amount (mt)

     
 

Jan-Sept 2016

Jan-Sept 2015

Y-o-y change (%)

September 2016

September 2015

Y-o-y change (%)

Australia

1,758,101

1,560,341

12.67

178,321

408,596

-56.36

USA

873,281

1,414,336

-38.26

-

130,921

-

Canada

778,591

504,464

54.34

54,604

171,087

-68.08

Russia

112,784

129,480

-12.89

-

-

-

Turkey's main coking coal import destinations on country basis in the first nine months of the current year are presented in the chart below:


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