According to media reports in South Africa, South Africa Richards Bay coal export center before published latest figures show that in South Africa in April totaled 5.2 million tons of coal supply to Asia. March compared to the South African coal exports declined, but Asia is still the main market of South Africa's coal exports.
The data show that India, China, China Taiwan become a major Asian coal demand to April, India imported South African coal 1.6 million tons; China, 810,000 tons; China Taiwan 840,000 tons. It is learned that, due to the recent international coal market oversupply, coupled with the impact of euro area economic downturn in Europe, forcing the major European coal demand market shrinking dramatically. The data show that the Atlantic market demand for coal in April, down 1.2 million tons from 1.4 million tons in March.
