{"id":15419,"date":"2012-10-09T17:42:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T15:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/update-1-indias-ntpc-buy-up-to-7-mln-t-coal-via-tenders\/"},"modified":"2012-10-09T17:42:08","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T15:42:08","slug":"update-1-indias-ntpc-buy-up-to-7-mln-t-coal-via-tenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-indias-ntpc-buy-up-to-7-mln-t-coal-via-tenders\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-India&#8217;s NTPC buy up to 7 mln T coal via tenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON\/NEW DELHI<\/span> Oct 9 (Reuters) &#8211; India&#8217;s state utility<br \/>\nNTPC will issue a tender to buy 7 million tonnes of<br \/>\nimported thermal coal in the next 10 days, Indian traders said.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>NTPC is expected to buy mostly Indonesian low to<br \/>\nmedium-grade coal, a type preferred by power generators in the<br \/>\nsubcontinent.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>NTPC issued 5 tenders on Tuesday for imported coal, four for<br \/>\n1.25 million tonnes each and one for 800,000 tonnes, with offers<br \/>\ndue to be submitted by October 30, according to its website.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;NTPC will be tendering for 7 million tonnes within days but<br \/>\nthe usual Indonesian coal,&#8221; one trader said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s spot thermal coal buying has been slow to revive<br \/>\nafter the annual lull during the monsoon season.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The first big tenders from NTPC and other state entities<br \/>\nhave been expected to spur fresh buying by the trading firms who<br \/>\ndominate India&#8217;s imports and supply utilities, cement makers and<br \/>\nsponge iron plants.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Jacqueline Cowhig and Malini Menon)<\/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>LONDON\/NEW DELHI Oct 9 (Reuters) &#8211; India&#8217;s state utility NTPC will issue a tender to buy 7 million tonnes of imported thermal coal in the next 10 days, Indian traders said. NTPC is expected to buy mostly Indonesian low to medium-grade coal, a type preferred by power generators in the subcontinent. NTPC issued 5 tenders [&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-15419","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\/15419","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=15419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}