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.
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