Coke Output in Ordos City, Inner Mongolia up 1.4% in Jan-Oct 2022.

Australian-Japanese joint venture BHP Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) is facing potential strikes at its coking coal mines in Queensland, as members of Australian unions vote in favour of taking protected industrial action.

The firm maintained its 2022-23 financial year production guidance at 58mn-64mn t.

BHP is the only one of the big four Western Australian iron ore mining firms to operate major coking coal exporting facilities.

The US shipped 139,162t to China in August, 88.8pc lower than a year earlier and 51.8pc lower than July.

In Shanxi Changzhi coke market, the mainstream price of quasi primary wet quenching metallurgical coke is 3260-3310 yuan per ton.

Japan's coking coal imports reached a six-month high in March.

In March, the national coke output was 40.17 million tons, a year-on-year decrease of 1.1%.