by Gordon Barratt | Jan 8, 2021 | News
Newcastle Coal Infrastructure Group Amid its coldest winter since 2013, China shows no sign of thawing its coal impasse with key supplier, Australia. Beijing’s insistence on avoiding Australian coal is leading to blackouts in many parts of China over the past...
by Gordon Barratt | Dec 10, 2020 | News
The U.S. Treasury Department recently imposed new sanctions for Chinese companies and vessels accused of skirting United Nations resolutions banning coal shipments from North Korea. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) added six new entities — four of them...
by Gordon Barratt | Nov 23, 2020 | News
Tata Steel has tested coking coal samples from Russia for making steel through the blast furnace route, its Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer T V Narendran said. The development assumes significance in the domestic steel industry as a fruitful result of...
by Gordon Barratt | Nov 20, 2020 | News
Natural gas prices rose by 18%, on average, in 2020Q3 as the global economy began to recover, and prices are now above their pre-pandemic levels. In contrast, coal prices have been broadly flat and remain around 20% lower than their January level. The pandemic has...
by Gordon Barratt | Nov 10, 2020 | News
China’s coal imports plunged in October to the lowest this year, with supplies from Australia particularly hard hit amid an ongoing political dispute. However, there are other factors at work and while the decline in imports from Australia is a headline-grabber, it’s...
