{"id":14858,"date":"2012-09-21T16:44:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T14:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/update-1-less-s-africa-coal-goes-to-asia-more-to-europe\/"},"modified":"2012-09-21T16:44:16","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T14:44:16","slug":"update-1-less-s-africa-coal-goes-to-asia-more-to-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-less-s-africa-coal-goes-to-asia-more-to-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Less S.Africa coal goes to Asia, more to Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Adds graphics)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON, Sept 21<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Asia&#8217;s share of South Africa&#8217;s<br \/>\ncoal exports of 5.9 million tonnes in August fell to 55 percent,<br \/>\nwhile the Atlantic market&#8217;s rose sharply, reflecting increased<br \/>\nshipments to oversupplied Europe, exporters said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This year, aside from a briefly open window in July-August,<br \/>\nSouth African coal FOB prices have been uncompetitively high in<br \/>\nmany markets but particularly Europe.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>However, widespread price renegotiations and shipment delays<br \/>\nsought by Chinese trade buyers for many coal origins led sellers<br \/>\nof South African coal to see Europe as a comparatively<br \/>\nattractive market due to less counterparty risk.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Atlantic market&#8217;s share of South African coal exports<br \/>\nrose to 44 percent of the total shipped from 21 percent in July.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>China also saw a fall in South African imports to 855,000<br \/>\ntonnes in August from 2.1 million in July.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s imports were little changed at 1.6 million tonnes in<br \/>\nAugust compared with 1.7 million in July.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Jacqueline Cowhig, editing by William Hardy)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Adds graphics) LONDON, Sept 21 (Reuters) &#8211; Asia&#8217;s share of South Africa&#8217;s coal exports of 5.9 million tonnes in August fell to 55 percent, while the Atlantic market&#8217;s rose sharply, reflecting increased shipments to oversupplied Europe, exporters said. This year, aside from a briefly open window in July-August, South African coal FOB prices have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-14858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}