Coal: Imports
(asked on 22nd June 2015) - View Source
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 1 June 2015 to Question 610, what amount of coal has been imported to the UK from each country in each of the last 10 years.
Nearly 90 per cent of all coal imported to the UK is steam coal, therefore figures for this type of coal are provided.
In the past ten years, over 90 per cent of UK steam coal imports originated from four countries: Russia, Colombia, the USA, and South Africa. Nearly half (49 per cent) of all coal imports in this period came from Russia. The table below gives UK steam coal imports by country from 2005 to 2014 in thousand tonnes:
Country of Origin | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
Russia | 16,888 | 22,543 | 20,185 | 21,193 | 18,414 | 9,166 | 12,093 | 17,459 | 19,177 | 15,831 |
Colombia | 3,369 | 3,883 | 3,842 | 5,294 | 5,233 | 6,236 | 8,010 | 11,749 | 11,388 | 9,269 |
USA | 266 | 707 | 1,121 | 2,792 | 3,112 | 2,349 | 4,461 | 8,858 | 9,528 | 7,687 |
EU (1) | 1,001 | 1,584 | 482 | 933 | 1,136 | 881 | 1,056 | 583 | 1,111 | 690 |
South Africa | 12,862 | 12,746 | 7,941 | 4,249 | 3,034 | 763 | 647 | 546 | 478 | 129 |
Other Countries | 2,845 | 2,146 | 2,175 | 2,920 | 1,865 | 356 | 205 | 425 | 1,313 | 569 |
Total all countries | 37,230 | 43,609 | 35,746 | 37,382 | 32,794 | 19,751 | 26,472 | 39,619 | 42,995 | 34,174 |
(1) European Union includes non-EU routed through the Netherlands.
Source: Energy Trends table 2.4 available at
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/solid-fuels-and-derived-gases-section-2-energy-trends.