{"id":504764,"date":"2022-07-12T11:23:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T05:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=504764"},"modified":"2022-07-12T11:23:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T05:53:13","slug":"coal-imports-hit-record-high-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coal-imports-hit-record-high-in-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal imports hit record high in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India&#8217;s coal imports hit a record high in June despite high global prices, data from three trade sources and Refinitiv ship tracking showed, as economic activity picked up and amid a domestic shortage of the fuel.<br \/>\nIndia imported over 25 million tonnes of thermal coal and coking coal in June, rising by over a third compared with the same period last year, data from consultancies Coalmint and Kpler, and trader I-Energy Natural Resources showed.<br \/>\nImports of thermal coal &#8211; used mainly in electricity generation &#8211; jumped to 19.6 million tonnes, while shipments of coking coal &#8211; used in steelmaking &#8211; rose to about 5.4 million tonnes, Coalmint and I-energy data showed.<br \/>\nCoal accounts for nearly three-fourths of India&#8217;s power output, and utilities account for over 75% of India&#8217;s coal consumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India&#8217;s coal imports hit a record high in June despite high global prices, data from three trade sources and Refinitiv ship tracking showed, as economic activity picked up and amid a domestic shortage of the fuel. India imported over 25 million tonnes of thermal coal and coking coal in June, rising by over a third compared with the same period last year, data from consultancies Coalmint and Kpler, and trader I-Energy Natural Resources showed. Imports of thermal coal &#8211; used mainly in electricity generation &#8211; jumped to 19.6 million tonnes, while shipments of coking coal &#8211; used in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504764","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}