Coal stocks at 17 major Indian ports totaled 12.57 million mt as of December 4, up 2.4% week on week, data released by Indian shipbroker Interocean on Friday showed.
The stockpile comprised 10.29 million mt of thermal coal, up 1.7% from 10.12 million mt the previous week; and 2.10 million mt of coking coal, marginally down 0.2% over the same period from 2.11 million mt, the data showed.
Anthracite stocks jumped almost 10 times to 32,000 mt from 3,000 mt last week while petcoke stocks rose to 140,746 mt from 10,000 mt during the same period.
Paradip on India's east coast had the highest coal stocks at 1.95 million mt, down 1.3% from 1.98 million mt the previous week. It also had the highest inventory of coking coal at 858,000 mt, up 8.1% 794,000 mt, according to Interocean.
Kandla port on the west coast had the highest stocks of thermal coal at 1.77 million mt, down 1.3% from 1.75 million mt the previous week.
The 17 ports surveyed by Interocean were Mangalore, Tuticorin, Kakinada, Paradip, Kandla, Gangavaram, Visakhapatnam, Krishnapatnam, Muldwarka, Bhavnagar, Pipavav, Goa, Haldia, Magdalla, Dahej, Mumbai and Karaikal.
