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...
by Gordon Barratt | Oct 28, 2020 | News
Colombia’s coal industry is experiencing one of the worst crises in its recent history. The Covid-19 pandemic has compounded problems including labour strikes, criticism of its environmental and human rights standards, and a decline in sales to its traditional...
