India imported a total 25.61 million tonnes of coal in November, rising 37.34% year on year and a 0.12% uptick on the month, according to data released by Iman resources.

In the month, non-coking coal imports in the country increased 54.27% from a year ago but fell 4.23% from the previous month to 18.19 million tonnes, while coking coal intakes reached 4.51 million tonnes, up 18.1% year on year and 6.36% on the month.

India imported 1.40 million tonnes of PCI coal during the same period, declining 12.57% from the year prior yet up 15.61% from a month earlier. Anthracite imports surged 151.4% year on year and 53.07% month on month to 237,700 tonnes.

In November, Indonesia was the largest non-coking coal supplier to India with shipment at 11.20 million tonnes, up 50.24% YoY but down 5.78% MoM. Non-coking coal intakes from South Africa came in at 3.35 million tonnes, soaring 212.22% YoY and up 12.63% MoM, data showed.

The country imported 2.59 million tonnes of coking coal from Australia over the month, rising 7.98% YoY but a 1.5% drop MoM; inflows from the U.S. were 748,500 tonnes, up 33.4% YoY and 29.7% MoM.

In the first eleven months this year, India's accumulated imports of non-coking coal reached 163 million tonnes and that of coking coal stood at 52.22 million tonnes. PCI coal imports totaled 15.83 million tonnes.

(Writing by Riley Liang  Editing by Emma Yang)
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