{"id":9820,"date":"2012-04-11T16:07:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T14:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/pakistan-takes-1st-u-s-steam-coal-cargo\/"},"modified":"2012-04-11T16:07:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T14:07:41","slug":"pakistan-takes-1st-u-s-steam-coal-cargo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/pakistan-takes-1st-u-s-steam-coal-cargo\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan takes 1st U.S. steam coal cargo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON, April 11<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; A Pakistani importer last week<br \/>\nbought the country&#8217;s first cargo of U.S. high-sulphur thermal<br \/>\ncoal, as end-users sought the best value coal origins beyond<br \/>\ntheir usual South African and Indonesian material, the buyer<br \/>\nsaid on Wednesday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 50,000 tonne cargo of 2.5 percent sulphur and 6,200<br \/>\nkc\/kg Net As Received energy content coal was sold by a trader<br \/>\nto the importing firm at around $121.00 a tonne CIF.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The cargo will be partly discharged in Dubai, to offload<br \/>\naround 10,000-12,000 tonnes and then continue to Pakistan, this<br \/>\nsaves money on the freight which works out at around $23 (a<br \/>\ntonne),&#8221; the buyer said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Overall, U.S. coal is now cheaper than Indonesian for the<br \/>\nPakistan market,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A glut of U.S. coal, unwanted by the shrinking domestic<br \/>\nmarket, has been flooding out as exports all over the world,<br \/>\nprimarily to Europe but increasingly this year, to Asia.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Jacqueline Cowhig; editing by Keiron Henderson)<\/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, April 11 (Reuters) &#8211; A Pakistani importer last week bought the country&#8217;s first cargo of U.S. high-sulphur thermal coal, as end-users sought the best value coal origins beyond their usual South African and Indonesian material, the buyer said on Wednesday. The 50,000 tonne cargo of 2.5 percent sulphur and 6,200 kc\/kg Net As Received [&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-9820","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\/9820","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=9820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}