India imported a total 25.58 million tonnes of coal in October, rising 26.29% year on year and 9.72% on the month, according to data released by Iman resources.

In the month, non-coking coal imports in the country increased 52.72% from a year ago and 16.33% from September to 19.00 million tonnes, while coking coal intakes reached 4.24 million tonnes, down 12.75% year on year but up 3.97% on the month.

India imported 1.21 million tonnes of PCI coal during the same period, declining 12.22% from the year prior and 12.94% from a month earlier. Anthracite imports increased 51.73% year on year and 64.59% month on month to 155,300 tonnes.

In October, Indonesia was the largest non-coking coal supplier to India at 11.89 million tonnes, up 51.52% YoY and 14.38% MoM. Non-coking coal intakes from South Africa came in at 2.97 million tonnes, surging 75.35% YoY yet falling 2.42% MoM, data showed.

The country imported 2.63 million tonnes of coking coal from Australia over the month, down 14.42% YoY but up 14.49% MoM; inflows from the U.S. were 577,000 tonnes, down 3.78% YoY and 32.79% MoM.

In the first ten months this year, India's accumulated imports of non-coking coal reached 145 million tonnes and that of coking coal stood at 47.71 million tonnes. PCI coal imports totaled 14.43 million tonnes.

(Writing by Riley Liang  Editing by Emma Yang)
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