Since mid-September to enter, harbor anchorage number of ships has been running at one hundred or more. "VAI cloud terminal" The data show that as of September 22, the Qinhuangdao Port anchorage ship has risen to 117, compared with August low of 26, an increase of 4 times. 

In this regard, the industry pointed out that the Port of Anchorage to run high number of ships, in addition to the port by turning machine overhaul and repair berths poor clearance caused by impact, launched earlier this year, coal Dongchu also a factor. 

News from the market this year, Datong-Qinhuangdao line "open marriage" downtime will be ranked in the October 5 -19 days, a period of 15 days, 4 hours a day outage. Compared with last year, this year's overhaul ahead of time about 3 days. 

Market participants pointed out that although repair time is shorter, but the outage four hours a day, meaning that intake will reduce the amount of 250,000 tons of coal, which would more or less affect port coal transferred to the lack of resources will occur when situation, the downstream pressure to increase the share of coal. Therefore, the need to increase the shipping capacity of coastal power plants, coal storage in advance. 

"Power Plant in 2008 focused Dongchu ever eaten burned, so now will be a little earlier clawed Library," "Steel Union Coal Network" analyst Chen Yanyan bluntly. 

Insiders said that the current domestic price of coal has basically dropped to the bottom, but also for power enterprises procurement. Monitoring data show that as of September 22, the six coastal power plant coal stocks at 13.3 million tons, coal storage available days back 20 days or more. 

Coal power plants to increase purchases, to a certain extent, also accelerated the port coal stocks decline. "Steel Union Coal Network" the latest data show that as of September 22, Qinhuangdao Port coal stockpiles has dropped to 5.945 million tons, below 600 million tons mark, compared with mid-August high of 7.455 million tons, a decrease of 151 tons, a decline of 20%. 

It should be noted that, in addition to outside of Qinhuangdao Port, Caofeidian, Jingtang Port, Tianjin Port coal stocks also fell across the board. Monitoring data show that as of September 22, the Bohai Rim four Hong Kong has dropped 15.645 million tons of coal inventory, return to normal levels. 

Bohai four Port coal stockpiles fell across the board, or the release of the domestic thermal coal market to stabilize the signal. It is reported that the market for steam coal has long been expected to stabilize, but Shenhua, China Coal and other cost advantages of large-scale coal enterprises take the lead in price, making the port thermal coal prices against the market trend and show a downward trend. 

It is noteworthy that, with the Datong-Qinhuangdao line maintenance and the early arrival of winter storage, port thermal coal price drop is also a narrowing trend. Monitoring data showed last week Bohai thermal coal prices close at 5500 kcal 533 yuan / ton, ring than the previous week continued to fall 3 yuan / ton, a decline narrowed. 

According to the latest Shenhua and China Coal Group's offer, in addition to the high calorific value coal prices continue to fall, the 5000 kcal coal prices have remained stable. Among them, the Coal 5000 kcal coal prices also rose 2 yuan / ton. 

Based on this, a trader who asked not to be named, said that due to the recent port market has improved, the Bohai coal price index also fell narrowed, 1-2 weeks after the steam coal market is expected to price or can safeguard stability. 

However, the "Steel Union Coal Network" analyst Chen Yanyan is clear that, despite the recent port thermal coal prices has slowed down the rhythm, the latter likely to stabilize, but "still does not show up the momentum."