SEOUL, Sept 19 (Reuters) - South Korea's coal imports rose 1.6 percent in August compared with a year earlier, customs data showed on Monday.
Total coal imports are composed of steam coal for power generation and coking coal for steel production.
Details of total imports in August are as follows:
(in tonnes/ in $/T)
Aug 2016
Aug 2015 Australia
3,799,776/ $70.45
4,290,101/ $73.37 Indonesia
3,027,136/ $42.38
2,248,892/ $50.43 Russia
1,733,958/ $59.48
1,822,047/ $64.53 Canada
494,136/ $99.37
927,613/ $76.40 Colombia
305,558/ $87.73
1,119/ $234.20 U.S.
265,294/ $93.51
271,638/ $111.34 China
166,615/ $75.93
124,988/ $91.19 Mozambique
77,000/ $86.62
- Trinidad Tobago
-
31,624/ $119.82
TOTAL
9,869,473/ $62.74
9,718,021/ $68.15
Details of the January to August imports are as follows:
(in tonnes/ in $/T)
Jan-Aug 2016
Jan-Aug 2015 Australia
32,320,552/ $64.91
35,881,132/ $82.41 Indonesia
20,092,094/ $42.28
20,461,995/ $55.12 Russia
13,990,870/ $61.09
13,661,842/ $73.48 Canada
4,530,541/ $84.19
7,104,583/ $92.79 U.S.
2,358,515/ $78.37
2,490,525/ $107.14 China
1,168,540/ $79.27
937,623/ $103.47 Colombia
760,957/ $68.55
9,270/ $237.55 S. Africa
332,458/ $62.25
166,999/ $69.18 Switzerland
190,459/ $67.24
- Austria
148,321/ $56.71
- Hong Kong
134,933/ $81.94
- Mozambique
153,999/ $91.30
- New Zealand
19,800/ $68.03
- Singapore
1,563/ $229.12
- Trinidad Tobago
-
100,435/ $118.10
TOTAL
76,203,601/ $60.13
80,814,403/ $75.94
Of the total imports, details of steam coal imports last month are as follows: (in tonnes/in $/T)
August 2016
August 2015 Indonesia
3,027,136/ $42.38
2,248,892/ $50.43 Australia
2,360,648/ $56.98
3,169,680/ $66.37 Russia
1,348,773/ $54.44
1,521,414/ $60.97 Colombia
304,000/ $87.07
- China
114,235/ $63.05
69,088/ $81.39 Canada
-
483,353/ $53.31
TOTAL
7,154,792/ $51.70
7,492,427/ $59.79