India’s 12 major government-owned ports handled around 18.33 million mt of imported thermal coal over April-May, up 1.3% from 18.09 million mt in the same period a year ago, according to Indian Ports Association data released Wednesday. But coking coal imports in the first two months of the current fiscal year 2016-2017 plunged by 8.4% to 8.7 million mt, from 9.5 million mt a year ago, the data showed. Paradip port on the east coast of India handled the highest volume of thermal coal imports during the two-month period at 5.1 million mt, up 4% from 4.9 million mt a year ago. Kolkata port, also on east coast, received the highest coking coal shipments in April-May at around 2.3 million mt, compared to 2.8 million mt in the same period last year, showing a drop of 17.8%. Article Continues below… Platts Coal Trader International is the only daily publication […]