{"id":15818,"date":"2012-10-23T20:01:37","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T18:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/indias-h1-201213-coal-imports-jump-18-pct-yy-ministry\/"},"modified":"2012-10-23T20:01:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T18:01:37","slug":"indias-h1-201213-coal-imports-jump-18-pct-yy-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/indias-h1-201213-coal-imports-jump-18-pct-yy-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s H1 2012\/13 coal imports jump 18 pct y\/y-ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">NEW DELHI<\/span> Oct 23 (Reuters) &#8211; India&#8217;s thermal and coking<br \/>\ncoal imports rose 18 percent to 63.98 million tonnes in April to<br \/>\nSeptember from a year ago, coal ministry figures provided by an<br \/>\nofficial showed, as local supplies continued to lag galloping<br \/>\ndemand.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Asia&#8217;s third-largest economy imported 102.853 million tonnes<br \/>\nof thermal and coking coal in the 2011\/12 fiscal year, jumping<br \/>\nnearly 50 percent from a year earlier, the figures given to<br \/>\nReuters on Tuesday showed.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The ministry expects India to produce 574.40 million tonnes<br \/>\nof coal in 2012\/13, 6.4 percent more than in the previous fiscal<br \/>\nyear.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But the shortfall between India&#8217;s domestic coal supply and<br \/>\ncoal demand will be around 192 million tonnes in the fiscal year<br \/>\nto March 2013, according to the coal ministry.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>India is seen importing 100 million tonnes of thermal coal<br \/>\nalone in this fiscal year, despite a sluggish revival of<br \/>\npost-monsoon spot buying and a slowing economy, suppliers and<br \/>\nend-users have said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Indian thermal coal imports were 71.052 million tonnes in<br \/>\nthe last fiscal year, while its coking coal imports stood at<br \/>\n31.801 million tonnes.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Malini Menon; Editing by Jo Winterbottom)<\/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>NEW DELHI Oct 23 (Reuters) &#8211; India&#8217;s thermal and coking coal imports rose 18 percent to 63.98 million tonnes in April to September from a year ago, coal ministry figures provided by an official showed, as local supplies continued to lag galloping demand. Asia&#8217;s third-largest economy imported 102.853 million tonnes of thermal and coking coal [&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-15818","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\/15818","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=15818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}