CAPE TOWN: South Africa’s thermal coal exports rose 14.4% on the year to 6.908 million mt in November, according to customs data released.
November’s volume was 2% down from October’s three-month high of 7.043 million mt.
Exports in the first eleven months of 2015 were 68.439 million mt, up 2.1% from a year earlier.
Shipments to India, the largest destination for South African thermal coal, rose 30% on the year to 3.332 million mt, but fell 2% from October.