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Coal market of the Black and Azov seas. “Black Sea Freight Market & Ports 2008” June 5 -6, Odessa, Hotel “Odessa”. Elena Ulyanova Analyst of coal and metallurgical markets. World seaborne coal trade. Coal prices reached historically highest level. Average prices of coking coal. Reasons
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Coal market of the Black and Azov seas “Black Sea Freight Market & Ports 2008” June 5 -6, Odessa, Hotel “Odessa” Elena Ulyanova Analyst of coal and metallurgical markets
Coal prices reached historically highest level Average prices of coking coal Reasons - growing demand for raw materials - disbalance of coal demand and supply at the turn of the 2007year - high freight rates in the Atlantic and Pacific markets - China’s coal export is falling down
Average prices of steam coal Europe Market Asia Market
Coal export from CIS countries During last 5 years export of coal from the CIS countries has increased in 1.5 times to 129 million tons Russia is the main coal exporter: in 2007 export of coal grown up to 98 million tons About 65% of coal export is shipped via sea ports
CIS. Seaborne coal trade 2007 year 2006 year
Coal shipments via CIS & Baltic ports 2007 2006
Goods turnover in Ukrainian sea ports 2007 2006
Goods turnover in Russian southern ports 2007 2006
Export rail transportation of Russian coal to southern ports
Directions of coal deliveries from Black and Azov sea ports 2007 2006
What are we expecting?.. Coal turnover of the Black and Azov seaports will remain at 22 million tons in 2008 Increasing of export coal transportation in own rail cars will push up FOB prices Turkey’s coal demand is growing