{"id":6788,"date":"2012-01-06T20:23:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T18:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/s-africa-2011-coal-exports-rise-chinas-share-up\/"},"modified":"2012-01-06T20:23:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T18:23:06","slug":"s-africa-2011-coal-exports-rise-chinas-share-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-2011-coal-exports-rise-chinas-share-up\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa 2011 coal exports rise, China&#8217;s share up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Jacqueline Cowhig<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON<\/span> Jan 6 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s coal exports<br \/>\nfor calendar year 2011 rose by 1.9 percent or 1.2 million tonnes<br \/>\nto 64.6 million tonnes from the previous year, but the most<br \/>\nnotable change was the fourth-quarter surge in the amounts going<br \/>\nto China, exporters said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>China took just over 13 million tonnes from South Africa<br \/>\nlast year, most of it in the fourth quarter as Chinese utilities<br \/>\nfilled stockpiles to capacity before the New Year holidays.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Although India remains the biggest single market for South<br \/>\nAfrican coal, accounting for 16.1 million tonnes in 2011, China<br \/>\nhas risen rapidly to the No. 2 spot.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In 2010 and 2009, Chinese buying of South African cargoes<br \/>\nwas rare and often at heavily discounted prices, because<br \/>\nAustralian or Indonesian coal costs less to ship due to its<br \/>\nproximity.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Jacqueline Cowhig, editing by Jane Baird)<\/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>By Jacqueline Cowhig LONDON Jan 6 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s coal exports for calendar year 2011 rose by 1.9 percent or 1.2 million tonnes to 64.6 million tonnes from the previous year, but the most notable change was the fourth-quarter surge in the amounts going to China, exporters said. China took just over 13 million [&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-6788","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\/6788","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=6788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}