SEOUL, Jan 16 (Reuters) - South Korea's coal imports rose 18 percent in December 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 December are as follows:
(in tonnes/ in $/T)
Dec 2016
Dec 2015 Australia
3,779,725/ $132.78
5,739,618/ $66.40 Indonesia
3,257,005/ $53.54
2,332,939/ $44.05 Russia
2,124,485/ $87.42
2,032,963/ $64.58 S. Africa
1,082,918/ $85.83
- Colombia
818,972/ $85.97
2,068/ $228.77 Canada
813,743/ $172.59
415,536/ $95.83 U.S.
513,048/ $119.88
219,570/ $100.22 China
389,620/ $97.14
85,807/ $86.50
TOTAL
12,779,516/ $98.99 10,828,501/ $63.25
Details of South Korea's coal imports in full-year 2016 are as follows:
(in tonnes/ in $/T)
Jan-Dec 2016
Jan-Dec 2015 Australia
47,325,863/ $78.30
55,793,890/ $77.72 Indonesia
31,156,063/ $44.30
28,836,598/ $52.72 Russia
21,426,079/ $66.86
19,978,256/ $71.08 Canada
6,544,143/ $101.34
9,332,853/ $91.25 U.S.
3,765,548/ $85.55
3,410,798/ $103.05 Colombia
2,467,551/ $77.65
14,928/ $234.73 China
2,394,763/ $83.94
1,551,808/ $99.08 S. Africa
2,195,392/ $79.67
166,999/ $69.18 Mozambique
229,097/ $90.91
77,008/ $100.31 Austria
225,321/ $66.42
- Singapore
200,960/ $85.84
- Switzerland
166,259/ $67.25
- Chile
151,800/ $73.88
- Hong Kong
134,933/ $81.94
- New Zealand
84,703/ $116.67
- Trinidad & Tobago
-
158,395/ $115.86
TOTAL
118,468,472/ $68.94 119,321,533/ $72.70
Of the total imports, details of steam coal imports last month are as follows: (in tonnes/ in $/T)
Dec 2016
Dec 2015 Indonesia
3,257,005/ $53.54
2,332,939/ $44.05 Australia
2,285,682/ $88.81
3,978,524/ $59.20 Russia
1,504,960/ $68.61
1,569,253/ $61.86 S. Africa
1,082,918/ $85.83
- Colombia
817,699/ $85.74
- Canada
303,198/ $55.70
- China
300,570/ $74.23
60,507/ $81.53 U.S.
123,549/ $91.46
-
TOTAL
9,675,580/ $71.74
7,941,223/ $55.45