India imported a total 23.31 million tonnes of coal in September, rising 12.49% on the year and 14.8% month on month, according to data released by Iman resources.

In the month, non-coking coal imports in the country increased 23.18% from a year ago and 32.98% from August to 16.33 million tonnes, while coking coal intakes reached 4.08 million tonnes, down 13.21% year on year and 21.58% on the month.

India imported 1.39 million tonnes of PCI coal during the same period, declining 14.52% from the year prior but up 26.01% from a month earlier. Anthracite imports decreased 31.38% year on year and 54.23% month on month to 94,300 tonnes.

In September, Indonesia was the largest non-coking coal supplier to India at 10.39 million tonnes, up 22.03% YoY and 28.75% MoM. Non-coking coal intakes from South Africa came in at 3.05 million tonnes, surging 126.81% YoY and 61.77% MoM, data showed.

The country imported 2.30 million tonnes of coking coal from Australia over the month, falling 35.11% YoY and 18.8% MoM; inflows from the U.S. were 858,600 tonnes, up 56.7% YoY yet down 11.83% MoM.

In the first nine months of this year, India's accumulated imports of non-coking coal reached 126 million tonnes and that of coking coal stood at 43.47 million tonnes. PCI coal imports totaled 13.22 million tonnes.

(Writing by Riley Liang  Editing by Emma Yang)
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