India's coal imports fell 24.29% year on year and 25.74% month on month to 16.1 million tonnes in November, showed data from the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
Of this, 10.29 million tonnes was thermal coal, down 37.01% year on year and 32.16% month on month, 5.53 million tonnes was coking coal, up 16.99% year on year but down 11.21% month on month and 277,100 tonnes was anthracite, surging 39.72% from a year ago but falling 25.74% from a month ago.
Total coal imports were 198 million tonnes over January-November, up 0.5% from the same period of last year.
Among the total coal imports, thermal coal was 140 million tonnes, down 7.39% from the year prior, coking coal was 54.83 million tonnes, up 28.19% from the preceding year and anthracite was 1.91 million tonnes, up 8.2% from a year ago.
Import value amounted to $3.53 billion in November, surging 145.86% year on year and up 9.3% month on month, sending January-November import value at $22.97 billion, rising 60.34% from a year ago.
India took the most coal from Australia at 6.68 million tonnes in November, up 34.82% year on year but down 7.19% month on month; coal imports from Indonesia were 4.79 million tonnes in the month, falling 51.45% year on year and 34.22% month on month; imports from South Africa were 1.51 million tonnes, falling 51.89% from a year ago and 7.77% from a month ago.
(Writing by Rebecca Liu Editing by Alex Guo)
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