The Indian steel mills are modernized. Usage of PCI increased in the BF, reducing coking coal & met coke imports.
Read MoreIndia’s import of fuels continues to grow after 2 years continuous fall in CY 2016 and CY 2017
Read MoreIndia’s import of fuels continues to grow after 2 years continuous fall in CY 2016 and CY 2017
Read MoreIndia’s import of fuel resumes growth after 2 years of fall in CY 2016 and CY 2017.
Read MoreThe Indian steel industry is using a lot more PCI directly in blast furnaces and reducing its coking coal and met coke imports. This leads to increase in PCI imports.
Read MoreIndia’s Import of solid fuel has started rising again after fall in 2 consecutive calendar years. In 2019, for the first six months, fuel imports scaled all time high and may reach an annualized total of 190 MMT.
Read MoreIndian Domestic Pet Coke Price Goes up by Rs 300. Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), the country’s largest pet coke producer, has revised its price to Rs 9,150/MT, with effect from 1st March ’19. It is Rs 300 higher compared to Feb 2019 Price.
Read MoreIn CY 2017, imports of PCI stood at 5.18 MMTs, against 4.79 MMTs
2016 and 3.24 MMTs in 2015.
Supplier countries of
PCI coal to India are Australia, Russia and Canada. 71%
of total Import of PCI comes from Australia at 4.56 MMT and Russia has
contributed 24% at 1.56 MMT.
2018 was a difficult year for pet coke import into India. Petcoke imports peaked in 2016 with 14.59 million metric tons (MMT) being imported into the country but in late 2017, the Supreme Court, banned the usage of pet coke in 4 states bordering the National Capital Region (NCR)—Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh—and Delhi itself, setting in motion close to 12 months of uncertainty around the usage of petcoke by Industry in India.
Read MoreIndian Pet coke imports dropped by 45% to 6.841 Million Metric tons (MMT) in 2018 against 12.423 MMT in 2017
Vizag
Port has handled maximum tons of Pet coke with 24% share at 1.627 MMT followed
by Krishnapatnam with 1.098 MMT & Gangavaram 588,000 Metric tons.