印度将增加从俄罗斯焦煤进口量

据11月26日Hydrocarbon Processing报道，印度钢铁部长普拉丹(Dharmendra Pradhan)表示，他相信未来几个月印度从俄罗斯进口的炼焦煤将大幅增加，并补充道，钢铁制造商已经开始检测俄罗斯进口煤样品。

长期以来，印度一直依赖澳大利亚进口焦煤满足其大部分需求，但在过去3年里，印度已逐步减少了从澳大利亚的焦煤进口量。

普拉丹表示：“随着炼焦煤……从价格、易得性、与港口的连通性和海上运输的角度来看变得更具吸引力，俄罗斯远东地区的煤炭出口量可能会增加。。”

政府数据显示，在截至2019年3月的一年里，从美国和加拿大进口的焦煤占进口总额的六分之一，而澳大利亚煤炭进口量从三年前的88%降至71%。

近年来澳大利亚煤炭经常发生供应中断，包括2月份一个主要产煤地区发生洪水，以及2017年昆士兰州遭遇气旋袭击，着也引发了印度对煤炭进口的担忧。

印度是全球增长最快的主要经济体之一，其焦煤进口总量在2018/19年度增长了10.3%，至5184万吨，预计未来10年焦煤需求将增长一倍以上。

到2030年，印度计划将粗钢年产量从目前的1.32亿吨提高至3亿吨，由于国内煤炭产量不足，钢铁制造商的大部分依赖进口。

洪伟立 摘译自 Hydrocarbon Processing

原文如下：

India steel minister expects to increase coking coal imports from Russia

India's Steel Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said he was confident India's imports of coking coal from Russia would increase significantly in the coming months, adding that steelmakers had started testing samples of Russian coal.

India long depended align="justify">"Offtake of coal from Far East Russia can grow as the coking coal...becomes more attractive from the point of view of price, ease of availability, connectivity to the ports and sea transport," the Ministry of Steel quoted Pradhan as saying in a statement.

Shipments of coking coal from the United States and Canada rose to a sixth of all Indian imports of the fuel during the year ended March 2019, according to government data, while Australia's share fell to 71% from about 88% three years ago.

Interruptions to Australian supply in recent years, including a flood in a major coal producing region in February and a cyclone that tore into Queensland in 2017, raised concerns in India.

Overall coking coal imports to India, align="justify">The country plans to increase annual crude steel production to 300 million tonnes by 2030 from 132 million tonnes currently, with steelmakers importing the bulk of their coal due to scarce domestic production.