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Australian Newcastle port's coal exports drop 15.8% on week to 2.54 mil mt.

Thermal and semi-soft coking coal shipments from eastern Australia's Newcastle port fell 15.8% week on week to 2.54 million mt for the week finished April 7, as well as were packed on to 28 ships, claimed Newcastle Port Corp in its most current regular update Monday.

For the previous week finished April 1, complete 3.02 million mt of coal was loaded by the port on to 30 coal ships.

Newcastle port's coal exports have risen and fall in between 2.3 million mt and 3 million mt over the previous 6 weeks on a combination of aspects including, dredging to grow the port's shipping channel, and falling components for Newcastle in the vessel freight market lately.

Port Waratah Coal Services delivered 2 million mt of coal via its 2 coal terminals on 23 ships in the seven-day duration ended April 7, stated the Seeker Valley Coal Chain Coordinator in a report Sunday.

The Newcastle Coal Infrastructure Group terminal would have represented the staying 540,000 mt of coal exports from Newcastle port last week, according to Platts' calculations based upon Newcastle as well as PWCS export data.

A lot more ships were queuing off Newcastle port Monday, compared to a week back on April 1, when only five ships were waiting off the port for a berth to load coal shipments.

" There are 13 vessels off the port waiting to tons. There are seven vessels in the port loading," stated NPC in its most current coal shipments report, Monday.

www.irowater.com of 39 ships were steaming towards the port to lots coal at Newcastle's 3 terminals on Monday, compared to 50 ships on their means to the port on April 1.

Newcastle coal chain authorities are anticipating there to be a reduction in ship numbers waiting at the port over the following few weeks.

The Seeker Valley Coal Chain Coordinator said in its report that the variety of ships in the PWCS vessel line up was anticipated to be up to 15 by the end of April based upon incurable demand for coal exports of 8.7 million mt.

" At PWCS, there were 21 vessels in the offshore line up at the end of the week," said HVCCC in its newest operating report.

Ship numbers in a port's vessel queue are a reliable indicator of freight demand, according to market resources.