{"id":295570,"date":"2019-10-09T12:51:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T07:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=295570"},"modified":"2019-10-09T12:53:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T07:23:18","slug":"coking-coal-shipments-rise-15-at-12-ports-in-apr-sep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coking-coal-shipments-rise-15-at-12-ports-in-apr-sep\/","title":{"rendered":"Coking coal shipments rise 15% at 12 ports in Apr-Sep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coal shipments handled by India\u2019s 12 major state-run ports during April-September rose by 15.25 per cent to 29.29 million tonne (MT), according to a ports\u2019 body.<\/p>\n<p>The state-run ports had handled 25.41 MT of coking coal cargo in the corresponding period of the previous fiscal.<\/p>\n<p>Shipments of thermal or steam coal, however, declined by 13.20 per cent to 44.87 million tonne, the Indian Ports Association (IPA) data showed. <\/p>\n<p>The IPA said these ports handled 51.69 MT of thermal coal in the April-September period of the previous fiscal. <\/p>\n<p>Thermal coal is the mainstay of the country\u2019s energy programme as 70 per cent of power generation is dependent on the dry fuel, while coking coal is used mainly for steel-making.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coal shipments handled by India\u2019s 12 major state-run ports during April-September rose by 15.25 per cent to 29.29 million tonne (MT), according to a ports\u2019 body. The state-run ports had handled 25.41 MT of coking coal cargo in the corresponding period of the previous fiscal. Shipments of thermal or steam coal, however, declined by 13.20 per cent to 44.87 million tonne, the Indian Ports Association (IPA) data showed. The IPA said these ports handled 51.69 MT of thermal coal in the April-September period of the previous fiscal. Thermal coal is the mainstay of the country\u2019s energy programme as 70 per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}