Vietnam imported 1.17 million mt of coal in October, up 46.4% year on year, preliminary personalizeds data launched Monday showed.
Generally an exporter, Vietnam developed into an importer amid increasing domestic demand, especially from the power sector.
Australia became the most significant provider of coal in the month with 498,272 mt, up from none in October in 2015, complied with by Russia (262,177 mt, up 102.1% year on year); and also Indonesia (232,007 mt, down 24.4% year on year).
In the very first 10 months, Vietnam imported 11.68 million mt of coal, skyrocketing 131.4% year on year, the data showed.
Australia was the biggest provider throughout January-October with 3.73 million mt, up more than four times from the exact same duration in 2015. The various other top sellers consisted of Russia with 3.34 million mt, likewise up 3.8 times from 909,239 mt a year previously; as well as Indonesia with 2.24 million mt, up 45.3% from a year ago.
China, which had actually been the key recipient of Vietnamese coal prior to 2015, delivered 1.54 million mt to Vietnam during January-October, up 16.9% year on year.
polyetheramines -owned power titan PetroVietnam previously this month signed an agreement in principle to get 12 million mt/year of imported coal from its subsidiary PV Power for 3 of its power tasks.
PV Power Coal, the coal device of PV Power, has already signed long-term offtake agreements with seven partners from Australia and also Indonesia for 15 million mt/year, PV Power Coal stated in a statement on its website.
Meanwhile, Vietnam exported 96,397 mt of coal in October, down 16.3% year on year, mainly to Japan at 67,833 mt, up 17.7% year on year).
In the initial 10 months, its coal exports fell 46.2% year on year to 827,525 mt with majority the volume mosting likely to Japan, followed by Indonesia and South Korea.
Throughout January-September, Vietnam generated 30.2 million mt of coal, down virtually 1% from 30.5 million mt in the exact same period in 2014, information from the General Stats Workplace showed. The figure for January-October is scheduled to be released later on this month.
Most of the country's coal production is utilized domestically by the power, concrete as well as various other industrial fields.