In December 24th, Qinhuangdao seaborne coal market release ring Bohai thermal coal price index (Comprehensive average price; ring heating amount in Bohai area 5500 kcal coal hereinafter referred to as: price index; English abbreviation: BSPI) to close at 525 yuan / ton, the report period (December 17th to December 23rd) than in the previous reporting period fell 1 yuan / ton.

This report period ring operation condition of Bohai area price of coal variety of transactions mainstream power are as follows:

Coal calorific value of 5500 kcal / kg: power coal calorific value of 5500 kcal / kg: in Qinhuangdao port, Caofeidian port, the country voted Jingtang Port, Jingtang Port, Tianjin port and Huanghua port mainstream prices respectively at 520 - 530 yuan / ton, 515 - 525 yuan / ton, 515 - 525 yuan / ton, 500 - 510 yuan / ton, 520 - 530 yuan / ton and 520 - 530 yuan / tons, of which, the country voted Jingtang Port trading price range than the previous reporting period fell by 5 yuan / ton; in Jingtang Port trading price range than the previous reporting period fell by 15 yuan / ton; in the other four price collection port trading price range and the previous reporting period flat.

Coal calorific value of 5000 kcal / kg: in Qinhuangdao port, Caofeidian port, the country voted Jingtang Port, Jingtang Port, Tianjin port and Huanghua port mainstream prices respectively at 450 - 460 yuan / ton, 450 - 460 yuan / ton, 455 - 465 yuan / ton, 445 - 455 yuan / ton, 455 - 465 yuan / ton and 455-465 yuan / ton, which, in the port of Huanghua trading price range than the previous reporting period fell by 5 yuan / ton; in the country voted Jingtang Port and Jingtang Port trading price range than the previous reporting period fell by 10 yuan / ton; in three other price acquisition of the transaction price interval and the previous reporting period flat.

The results from the Bohai sea six port trading price of the acquisition and calculation, the reporting period, 24 port specification products, prices flat port specification products from 16 the previous period reduced to 12; the price of the decline of the port specification from the previous period of 2 to 11; the rise in the price of the port specification products from 6 the previous period reduced to 1.

This report period around the Bohai power coal price index operation results show that (1) in this period, the number of prices and rising specification product decrease rapidly, and prices drop port specification products increased rapidly and nearly half, showed that in this area the price of coal trading power integrated appeared falling trend; (2) price index after the September 3rd to December 17th for 14 months during the report period the overall recovery, this period down again; (3) from September 3rd to December 17th, the price index has risen by 48 yuan / ton, the cumulative increase of 10%.

The analysis thinks, some negative factors on the period mentioned in the weekly, and the depth of thermal coal futures market TC1501 main contract recent slump warning and impact on the stock market, as well as panic led to the steam coal market in the future lack of confidence of the sell-off, broken the relative balance of large coal enterprises difficult maintenance of the ring of Bohai coal market supply demand relations during the reporting period, prompting the ring index in Bohai coal prices down.

Qinhuangdao seaborne coal market December 23rd release of seaborne coal freight index (OCFI) shows that during the reporting period (December 10th to December 23rd) the index continued its downward, to close at 634.25 points, than the previous week down 15.24 points, or 2.35%. Specific to the part of the main hull and the route, in December 23rd compared with December 16th, the average price of coal in Qinhuangdao to Guangzhou route 5-6 million tons of the ship fell 0.5 yuan / ton to 29.9 yuan / ton; coal average rate from Qinhuangdao to Shanghai route 4-5 million tons of the ship fell 1 yuan / ton to 20.3 yuan / ton; the average coal freight from Qinhuangdao to Zhangjiagang route 2-3 million tons of the ship fell 0.6 yuan / ton to 26.8 yuan / ton. (Li Xuegang)