India’s coal import rises 13% to 107 MT in April-September

India’s coal import rose by 12.6 per cent to 107.34 million tonnes in the first six months of 2021-22.

The country had imported 95.30 million tonnes (MT) of the coal in April-September 2020-21, according to provisional data compiled by mjunction services, based on monitoring of vessels’ positions and data received from shipping companies.

mjunction–a joint venture between Tata Steel and SAIL–is a B2B e-commerce company and also publishes research reports on coal and steel verticals.

However, the country’s coal import dropped to 14.85 MT in September, against 19.04 MT in the corresponding month of previous fiscal, it said.