Coal prices next year, has been settled, or 5% or 15% still is unknown
Time:2010-01-04 Read:1659second
Unlike in previous years was less this year, the National Development and Reform Commission coal negotiations, but more a "cut-off date" - "30 days to Gaoding." "National Development and Reform Commission will not intervene in the price specified in January, but by late in leaving the subject of" Coal Transportation and Marketing Association, the Guangdong authorities told reporters.
Shandong coal enterprises in Guangzhou, a sales manager, told reporters that the current coal industry's attitude is very unified, "we will not be an easy sign a price" because of the rising cost of coal mining coal prices low this year, to break the situation. Prior to the northern region have been designated coal prices next year, or 5% to 15% will be in this southern region is expected to range above.
This reporter learned that power companies there was actually two waves of camp is a camp five power generation groups are "strong faction" as long as the domestic coal is not significantly lower prices will continue to maintain the trend of imports of foreign coal, the other camp, the vast number of small and medium power generation enterprises, "Import of coal is a an important complement to, and coal prices but we will not fall out first, and they do not rule out signing "a medium-sized power enterprises in Guangdong told reporters.
At present negotiations are the key to coal's "wrestling" in the prices gradually become the consensus the two sides "is just up the number of significant differences between coal and electricity prices more than 15% enterprises want to want about 5%," power producers told reporters.
News Analysis: No suspense rising imports of coal coal or fall
Guangdong Electric Power generation companies as well as local business people have told reporters that the negotiations this year, coal is the most up our argument how much "in some areas have local power company signed a contract price increase," the letter, Guangdong Province, appointed by the source said.
Fact, according to China Coal Transportation and Marketing Association latest statistics released by As at 8:00 on December 23 2010, national coal production has been shipped need to link a preliminary compilation of more than 130 million ton This also means that more than 10% of the coal order "finalized."
Guangdong imports of coal, power generation companies say there are price hikes trend "If the prices of imports of coal, we will definitely drop to import more use of domestic coal." (Xu Starfish)