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 forecasts her Department has made of the amount of coal that will be imported from each country in (a) 2015, (b) 2016 and (c) 2017.


Answered by
Andrea Leadsom Portrait
Andrea Leadsom
This question was answered on 29th June 2015

The Department does not produce projections on imports of coal.

Coal is abundant worldwide and widely traded on a flexible international market. The table below gives UK steam coal imports by country for the first quarter of 2015 in thousand tonnes and as a percentage of total steam coal imports:

Country of Origin

Steam Coal

Imports

(thousand tonnes)

Share of all

Steam coal

imports

Russia

4,879

49.3%

Colombia

2,632

26.6%

United States of America

1,985

20.1%

Republic of South Africa

268

2.7%

European Union (1)

128

1.3%

Total all countries

9,892

(1) European Union includes non-EU routed through the Netherlands

Source: DECC Energy Trends https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/energy-trends

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