ANKARA: Turkey’s bituminous thermal coal imports slipped below the 2 million mt level in May for the first time since September 2015, falling 24.5% on the year to 1.57 million mt, according to data from the Turkish statistical Institute (TUIK) published Thursday. The volume also dropped 25.3% from April and was at a 25-month low, the data showed.
During the January-May period, Turkey received 11.17 million mt of thermal coal, up 3.7% from the corresponding 2015 period. Colombia remained Turkey’s largest supplier of thermal coal in May, delivering 652,399 mt, slipping 18% on the year and 50% lower than April’s volume to a 10-month low.
