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Wednesday, 02 March 11
INDIA, 2ND LARGEST IMPORTER OF INDONESIAN COAL IN 2010
 COALspot.com: Indonesia, the world largest coal exporter, shipped 24.68 million tons of coal in January 2011, which was 1.19 percent higher Y-o-Y but 10.84 percent lesser M-o-M. Indonesia has exported 284.83 million tons of coal including semi coking and LRC coal in year 2010, according to our source who is familiar with Indonesian coal exports.
Exports to China
January 2011 has witnessed a drop in Indonesia's coal exports to china by 43.63 percent compared to December 2010 exports. January exports of Indonesian coal to china amounted to 4.796 million tons as against 8.510 million tons in December 2010. Last year Chinese's utilities have imported more Indonesian coal than Indian Utilities. Out of Indonesian Coal Exports in 2010 China accounted for 74.570 million tons which is around 26.18 percent of the total coal exports.
India 2nd largest Importer
India became the second largest importer of Indonesian coal in 2010. 47.593 million tons of Indonesian coal has been imported both by government and private utilities of India in 2010. India’s January 2011 imports of Indonesian coal have jumped significantly. India has imported 6,099,932 MT of coal in January 2011 compared to just 3,885,454 MT in a month ago or 56.99 percent higher than December imports. In 2010 Indonesia has exported 16.70 percent of its total coal exports to India.
Top five Indonesian coal importers in 2010 were China, India, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan.
India reduces import duty for Indonesian coal
India has introduced special reduced rate of import duty for Indonesian coal since January 2011. Thereby Indonesian coal enjoys 2% cheaper import duty in India compared to other origins of coal. According to market players, Indonesian coal is subjected to a duty of 3 percent as against 5 percent for other origins of coal.
Indonesian coal traders must hold IUP OP KPP
Early January Indonesia has implemented temporary coal export ban on coal traders until 4th of February. After a month of ban, finally Indonesia has allowed few coal traders to resume coal exports. According to government officers, as of 18th February, Indonesia has issued 63 trading or export licenses to Indonesian coal trading companies. Still few hundreds of applications were in process with the mining department. This ban led to lower exports by around 10 percent compared to December 2010 exports.
Indonesian to ban on coal below 5600 GAD by 2014
As per the news sources Indonesian government is contemplating a ban of coal with calorific value below 5600 Kcal/kg on GAD basis by 2014. In order to get export eligibility LRC coal producers asked to upgrade their coal to 5600 GAD or more. If not miners will have to depend on home market. This move of the Government makes the message clear that value added product should only be exported. This action encourages miners to establish additional facilities and generate additional employment or to sell the raw product within the country as more domestic consumption is predicted in the coming years. Export of Value added product enhances the inward remittances and fetches more taxes and revenue.
However, experts and some major stake holders are of the opinion that the proposed ban by 2014 may not be practical due to non availability of commercially viable upgrading and conversion technology at this moment. Also the infrastructure needed for this type of mammoth activity of beneficiation and upgrading of coal needs large sums of investments. According to industry sources, worldwide the upgrading technology is in the nascent stages and yet to be established. At this moment there is no proven technology is available to upgrade coal at a workable cost. Due to these reasons and also to protect the export income many big coal producers are lobbying with the Government to dilute the seriousness of the proposal.
Low calorific value coal accounts for almost 60% of the total Indonesian coal production or exports an exporter said. International coal prices are still at lower level and it will not be workable for upgraded coal to compete with coal that has been produced from other countries including new comers such as Mozambique and Mongolia. Once the logistical bottlenecks are cleared, these two countries become big competitors for other coal producing countries. In this context how the proposed ban on below 5600 GAD coal would take a shape is much crucial and an acid test for the Government to sustain the heavy pressure from LRC coal producers and also politically an important year due to Presidential/general elections.
Indian investment in LCV coal mines
According to industry sources, there was a spate of Indian companies’ investment in several low GCV coal mines in Indonesia with a motive of attaining fuel security. According to available data, more than two dozen Indian companies have already invested in coal mines in Indonesia and some of them are already in production. Majority of Indian investors in Indonesia were end-users and the purpose of investment was purely captive use. The reaction of this captive investor’s is yet to be seen if the bans seriously considered and implemented by 2014. In which case they might claim exemption for their captive usage in India or withdraw their existing investments and channelize the same to other upcoming promising destinations like Mongolia, Mozambique and Australia. One of the serious investor opined that in case such ban is inevitable the Indian investor arbitrage on the cost of upgradation Vs migrating to other viable destinations. However, one trend is clearly emerging that Indian coal mine investments abroad are seeing steady increase. The evidence of recent acquisition of Western Australia’s Griffin Coal Mines for a whopping US$ 750 Million by Lanco group or aggressive investments in Mozambique, South Africa and Queensland shows the urge of Indian industry main agenda of attaining a level of continuous and reliable coal supplies. Understand US coal started coming to India. One of the major cement plants in west coast India contracted for 7 shipments of high sulphur, high calorific value coal from US on CFR terms at much cheaper cost than Indonesia. According to a major power developer in India, majority of the Indian private power plants would start operating by end 2013, hence all the Indian industries are seriously scouting for acquiring mines abroad. In view of the current uncertainty of high calorific value coal mines availability in Indonesia and the threatening proposal of ban below 5600 gad coal making them to focus on other origin coals. Moving higher calorific value coals by capesize vessels are seen as the cheaper remedies to counter the vagaries of Indonesian low calorific value and high moisture coals with stringent regulations and threat of recurring Force Majors.
ICRP
Indonesia already successfully implemented monthly coal reference price for its coal. Coal producers were asked to comply with the government declared index prior to conclude any short term and long terms coal sales agreement with its buyers. Indonesian HBA have raised fifth straight month and it was at US$ 127.05 in February 2011.
The coal export information within this article is provided by coalspot.com on an "as is" and "as available” basis. All details about, given in good faith and has been collected from various press reports, organization and individuals considered reliable but without guarantee. While every care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of information furnished in this article. COALspot.com shall be obliged if errors / omissions are brought to its notice for carrying out corrections in this article.(cs)
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Thursday, 24 February 11
SUPRAS ARE FIXED AT CLOSE TO 10K FOR TRIPS VIA INDONESIA TO INDIA WITH COAL - FEARNBULK
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Wednesday, 23 February 11
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Wednesday, 23 February 11
DRY BULK MARKET BACK ON RETREAT MODE - NIKOS ROUSSANOGLOU, HELLENIC SHIPPING
The two week rise of dry bulk freight rates seems to have come to a halt this week, with the industry’s benchmark, the Baltic Dry Index (BDI) lo ...
Wednesday, 23 February 11
INDONESIA NEEDS TO REVISE EXPORT BAN ON 5600 GAD COAL EXPORT - INDUSTRY
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Tuesday, 22 February 11
SUPRAMAX MARKET IS IMPROVING IN THE PACIFIC
BRS - A 10% rise in the BDI this week, mostly on the back of Panamax rates and improvements in the Supramax market in the Pacific. For the Capes, ra ...
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- Indonesian Coal Mining Association
- Petron Corporation, Philippines
- CNBM International Corporation - China
- Bulk Trading Sa - Switzerland
- Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited - India
- Ambuja Cements Ltd - India
- Karbindo Abesyapradhi - Indoneisa
- Directorate General of MIneral and Coal - Indonesia
- Banpu Public Company Limited - Thailand
- GN Power Mariveles Coal Plant, Philippines
- Thiess Contractors Indonesia
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- Cement Manufacturers Association - India
- European Bulk Services B.V. - Netherlands
- Energy Link Ltd, New Zealand
- Tamil Nadu electricity Board
- Central Electricity Authority - India
- Kobexindo Tractors - Indoneisa
- Offshore Bulk Terminal Pte Ltd, Singapore
- Pendopo Energi Batubara - Indonesia
- Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission - India
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- San Jose City I Power Corp, Philippines
- ASAPP Information Group - India
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- Indian Oil Corporation Limited
- Sindya Power Generating Company Private Ltd
- Sree Jayajothi Cements Limited - India
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- Medco Energi Mining Internasional
- Bangladesh Power Developement Board
- AsiaOL BioFuels Corp., Philippines
- Electricity Authority, New Zealand
- Xindia Steels Limited - India
- Siam City Cement PLC, Thailand
- Iligan Light & Power Inc, Philippines
- Bukit Asam (Persero) Tbk - Indonesia
- Mintek Dendrill Indonesia
- Jorong Barutama Greston.PT - Indonesia
- Madhucon Powers Ltd - India
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- India Bulls Power Limited - India
- CIMB Investment Bank - Malaysia
- Lanco Infratech Ltd - India
- Independent Power Producers Association of India
- Bhatia International Limited - India
- SN Aboitiz Power Inc, Philippines
- Price Waterhouse Coopers - Russia
- Kapuas Tunggal Persada - Indonesia
- SMG Consultants - Indonesia
- Carbofer General Trading SA - India
- Billiton Holdings Pty Ltd - Australia
- Ceylon Electricity Board - Sri Lanka
- Romanian Commodities Exchange
- Indian Energy Exchange, India
- Riau Bara Harum - Indonesia
- Makarim & Taira - Indonesia
- Chamber of Mines of South Africa
- The Treasury - Australian Government
- Marubeni Corporation - India
- Orica Mining Services - Indonesia
- IHS Mccloskey Coal Group - USA
- Formosa Plastics Group - Taiwan
- OPG Power Generation Pvt Ltd - India
- Ministry of Finance - Indonesia
- Renaissance Capital - South Africa
- GMR Energy Limited - India
- Star Paper Mills Limited - India
- Metalloyd Limited - United Kingdom
- Bayan Resources Tbk. - Indonesia
- LBH Netherlands Bv - Netherlands
- Vizag Seaport Private Limited - India
- Neyveli Lignite Corporation Ltd, - India
- Edison Trading Spa - Italy
- Therma Luzon, Inc, Philippines
- Sical Logistics Limited - India
- GVK Power & Infra Limited - India
- Truba Alam Manunggal Engineering.Tbk - Indonesia
- Miang Besar Coal Terminal - Indonesia
- Sarangani Energy Corporation, Philippines
- Mjunction Services Limited - India
- MS Steel International - UAE
- Commonwealth Bank - Australia
- Holcim Trading Pte Ltd - Singapore
- Bahari Cakrawala Sebuku - Indonesia
- Gujarat Mineral Development Corp Ltd - India
- ICICI Bank Limited - India
- Meenaskhi Energy Private Limited - India
- Kumho Petrochemical, South Korea
- Directorate Of Revenue Intelligence - India
- TeaM Sual Corporation - Philippines
- Latin American Coal - Colombia
- PetroVietnam Power Coal Import and Supply Company
- Posco Energy - South Korea
- Orica Australia Pty. Ltd.
- Kaltim Prima Coal - Indonesia
- Deloitte Consulting - India
- International Coal Ventures Pvt Ltd - India
- Binh Thuan Hamico - Vietnam
- Intertek Mineral Services - Indonesia
- Dong Bac Coal Mineral Investment Coporation - Vietnam
- The State Trading Corporation of India Ltd
- Africa Commodities Group - South Africa
- Altura Mining Limited, Indonesia
- Simpson Spence & Young - Indonesia
- Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission - India
- Rio Tinto Coal - Australia
- The University of Queensland
- Baramulti Group, Indonesia
- Anglo American - United Kingdom
- Bharathi Cement Corporation - India
- Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand
- Wood Mackenzie - Singapore
- Meralco Power Generation, Philippines
- Semirara Mining and Power Corporation, Philippines
- Indogreen Group - Indonesia
- Parry Sugars Refinery, India
- Coalindo Energy - Indonesia
- Asia Pacific Energy Resources Ventures Inc, Philippines
- Petrochimia International Co. Ltd.- Taiwan
- Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd
- Manunggal Multi Energi - Indonesia
- Asmin Koalindo Tuhup - Indonesia
- Merrill Lynch Commodities Europe
- IEA Clean Coal Centre - UK
- Malabar Cements Ltd - India
- McConnell Dowell - Australia
- Georgia Ports Authority, United States
- Standard Chartered Bank - UAE
- Goldman Sachs - Singapore
- Eastern Coal Council - USA
- GAC Shipping (India) Pvt Ltd
- Trasteel International SA, Italy
- Australian Coal Association
- Larsen & Toubro Limited - India
- Coal and Oil Company - UAE
- London Commodity Brokers - England
- Central Java Power - Indonesia
- Gujarat Sidhee Cement - India
- Eastern Energy - Thailand
- Jindal Steel & Power Ltd - India
- Maheswari Brothers Coal Limited - India
- PTC India Limited - India
- Indo Tambangraya Megah - Indonesia
- Global Coal Blending Company Limited - Australia
- Kalimantan Lumbung Energi - Indonesia
- Aboitiz Power Corporation - Philippines
- Cigading International Bulk Terminal - Indonesia
- Economic Council, Georgia
- Attock Cement Pakistan Limited
- Tata Chemicals Ltd - India
- Dalmia Cement Bharat India
- Australian Commodity Traders Exchange
- SMC Global Power, Philippines
- PNOC Exploration Corporation - Philippines
- Bhoruka Overseas - Indonesia
- Chettinad Cement Corporation Ltd - India
- Oldendorff Carriers - Singapore
- Heidelberg Cement - Germany
- Parliament of New Zealand
- Borneo Indobara - Indonesia
- Minerals Council of Australia
- Sakthi Sugars Limited - India
- Essar Steel Hazira Ltd - India
- Timah Investasi Mineral - Indoneisa
- Antam Resourcindo - Indonesia
- Savvy Resources Ltd - HongKong
- Dr Ramakrishna Prasad Power Pvt Ltd - India
- Siam City Cement - Thailand
- Uttam Galva Steels Limited - India
- Mercuria Energy - Indonesia
- Ministry of Mines - Canada
- Kohat Cement Company Ltd. - Pakistan
- White Energy Company Limited
- Aditya Birla Group - India
- Ind-Barath Power Infra Limited - India
- Bhushan Steel Limited - India
- Grasim Industreis Ltd - India
- New Zealand Coal & Carbon
- Samtan Co., Ltd - South Korea
- Alfred C Toepfer International GmbH - Germany
- Mercator Lines Limited - India
- South Luzon Thermal Energy Corporation
- Sojitz Corporation - Japan
- Port Waratah Coal Services - Australia
- Barasentosa Lestari - Indonesia
- Indika Energy - Indonesia
- Agrawal Coal Company - India
- TNB Fuel Sdn Bhd - Malaysia
- Filglen & Citicon Mining (HK) Ltd - Hong Kong
- Global Business Power Corporation, Philippines
- Salva Resources Pvt Ltd - India
- Wilmar Investment Holdings
- Coastal Gujarat Power Limited - India
- Pipit Mutiara Jaya. PT, Indonesia
- Global Green Power PLC Corporation, Philippines
- Krishnapatnam Port Company Ltd. - India
- Vedanta Resources Plc - India
- Thai Mozambique Logistica
- Bukit Baiduri Energy - Indonesia
- Semirara Mining Corp, Philippines
- Interocean Group of Companies - India
- Leighton Contractors Pty Ltd - Australia
- Singapore Mercantile Exchange
- Planning Commission, India
- VISA Power Limited - India
- Ministry of Transport, Egypt
- Vijayanagar Sugar Pvt Ltd - India
- Energy Development Corp, Philippines
- Straits Asia Resources Limited - Singapore
- Karaikal Port Pvt Ltd - India
- Toyota Tsusho Corporation, Japan
- Globalindo Alam Lestari - Indonesia
- Power Finance Corporation Ltd., India
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