India’s coal imports saw a slight uptick to 212.24 million tonnes (MT) during the April-January period of the current fiscal year, marking a 1.65% rise from the previous year’s 208.78 MT, as per data compiled by mjunction services ltd, a B2B e-commerce platform.
During the same period, non-coking coal imports amounted to 136.47 MT, slightly lower than the 136.90 MT imported in the previous fiscal year. Coking coal imports, however, increased to 47.32 MT from 46.09 MT recorded in the corresponding period of FY23.
In January alone, coal imports through major and non-major ports rose to 19.81 MT compared to 16.97 MT in January of the previous fiscal year. Of this, non-coking coal imports stood at 12.10 MT, up from 10.01 MT in January last year, while coking coal imports slightly declined to 4.50 MT from 4.74 MT in the corresponding month of the previous year.
According to provisional government data, India’s coal production during the April-January period rose to 784.11 MT from 698.99 MT during the same period in 2022-23.
