{"id":342079,"date":"2020-03-16T12:16:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T06:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=342079"},"modified":"2020-03-16T14:22:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T08:52:09","slug":"covid-19-impact-coal-import-declines-14-to-17-million-tonnes-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/covid-19-impact-coal-import-declines-14-to-17-million-tonnes-in-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 impact: Coal import declines 14% to 17 million tonnes in February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India&#8217;s coal imports registered a decline of 14.1 per cent to 17.01 million tonnes (MT) in February in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, as per industry data.<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s coal imports in February last year stood at 19.82 MT, according to a provisional compilation by mjunction services, based on monitoring of vessels&#8217; positions and data received from shipping companies.<\/p>\n<p>mjunction &#8212; a joint venture between Tata SteelNSE -9.14 % and SAILNSE -6.43 % &#8212; is a B2B e-commerce company which also publishes research reports on coal and steel verticals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In line with expectations, coal import volumes staged a decline during the month of February due to increased domestic availability, volatility in non-coking coal prices as well as uncertainty arising from&#8230;coronavirus epidemic,&#8221; mjunction MD and CEO Vinaya Varma said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India&#8217;s coal imports registered a decline of 14.1 per cent to 17.01 million tonnes (MT) in February in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, as per industry data. The country&#8217;s coal imports in February last year stood at 19.82 MT, according to a provisional compilation by mjunction services, based on monitoring of vessels&#8217; positions and data received from shipping companies. mjunction &#8212; a joint venture between Tata SteelNSE -9.14 % and SAILNSE -6.43 % &#8212; is a B2B e-commerce company which also publishes research reports on coal and steel verticals. &#8220;In line with expectations, coal import volumes staged [&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":[194,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342079","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=342079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}