Coal shipments from Australia's Gladstone port rose 14.7% from a year earlier to 5.60 million tonnes in March 2024, showed data from the Gladstone Ports Corporation.
The volume was also 11.1% higher than the month-ago level, as the shortage of workers at RG Tanna eased.
Gladstone shipped 2.23 million tonnes of coal to Japan in the month, surging 63.3% year on year and 76.4% month on month, while China's mainland received 1.38 million tonnes of coal from the port, soaring 50.3% from the corresponding period last year and 95.9% on the month.
Coal exports to India were 893,000 tonnes in March, ticking up 0.8% on the year yet falling 18.2% on the month, data showed.
Around 70% of Gladstone coal exports are metallurgical coal, used for steelmaking, and the rest 30% are thermal coal for power generation.
The exports amounted to 15.70 million tonnes over the first three months, up 17.5% from a year ago, while vessels anchoring outside the port decreased, data showed.
(Writing by yan.sun Editing by Alex Guo)
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