Near the peak of coal consumption in winter, coastal power plants have increased the pace of coal storage and pulling, and increased the number of coal storage. Up to now, a total of 83.87 million tons of coal have been stored in key power plants and 15.72 million tons have been stored in six coastal power plants. The high level of coal storage in power plants, coupled with the decline in demand for cement, building materials and other industries; the previous coal storage, coupled with rigid pulling, is enough to ensure the demand for coal in coastal areas. In the 11 and 12 months of this year, the coastal coal market is not expected to be tight enough for 12 months.

Since this year, the long-term improvement of domestic economic development has not changed. In January-September, the national thermal power generation increased by 3.7%. In January-September, the imported coal increased by 15.2 million tons, while the coal throughput of northern ports increased by 15.92 million tons. This shows that the coal demand in coastal areas along the Yangtze River is still growing.

According to statistics, in the 1-9 month of this year, China's railway transport coal amounted to 15.7 million tons, an increase of 10.1% over the same period last year. From January to September, 565 million tons of coal were transported to coastal ports nationwide, an increase of 15.92 million tons compared with the same period last year, of which 537 million tons were transported to seven ports in the north, an increase of 23.16 million tons compared with the same period last year, and 15.902 and 15.09 million tons were transported to Qinhuangdao Port and Huanghua Port. Qinhuangdao Port and Huanghua Port go hand in hand in the next two months. It is not easy to judge who will become the first coal port in China.

_This year, it is estimated that the total coal shipment from coastal ports will reach 760 million tons, an increase of 20 million tons over the same period last year, which will continue to grow. In the first half of this year, the coal market maintained a two-pronged trend of supply and demand. Affected by Sino-US trade frictions, industrial electricity consumption weakened, and the high base factor in the second half of last year, the situation of coal shipment in northern ports was worse than that in the first half of this year after August. However, with the winter storage, the number of ships going to Hong Kong will be maintained. Therefore, in the last two months of this year, the demand for coal market is steadily improving. The operation of the coal market after the Spring Festival next year is not optimistic. The main reason is whether industrial electricity can recover quickly.

From January to early August this year, the coal market basically maintained the trend of booming supply and demand, and the daily consumption of six major power plants along the coast once rose to a high of 830,000 tons. In summer, affected by the staggered peak production of high energy-consuming enterprises, the industrial power consumption is weak; in addition, the hydropower operation is good, which helps to reduce the power of fire voltage, and the coal market maintains a flat trend. Beginning in mid August, the demand for coal market slowed down as civil electricity load declined. After the Sino-US trade frictions, the industrial power consumption in Zhejiang and Shanghai, where the majority of foreign trade processing enterprises, has been sluggish, and the daily consumption of power plants has been running at a low level. In addition, the increase of purchased electricity in coastal areas such as Zhejiang and Fujian has resulted in the reduction of thermal voltage and the low load of power plants. Since late September, with the increase of winter coal storage and haulage, the enthusiasm of power plant haulage has been restored. It is also the arrival of the peak coal consumption in winter that masks the shortage of downstream demand. Before winter, coal storage in both key power plants and coastal power plants is at a high level. It is expected that coal utilization in coastal areas along the Yangtze River will not be strained this winter.