Official U.S. statistics show that total U.S. coal exports in 2018 were 104.9 million tons, up 19.3% from 2017, the second highest level in history. Among them, India is the largest buyer of power coal in the United States, while Brazil is the largest buyer of metallurgical coal in the United States.
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According to the data, total U.S. metallurgical coal exports in 2018 were 55.8 million tons, up 11.3% from last year, the highest level since 2014. Among them, the total export volume of Brazil was 7.6 million tons, an increase of 14.9% over 2017, the total export volume of Netherlands was 5.6 million tons, an increase of 82.5% over the same period of last year, and the total export volume of Japan was 5.4 million tons, an increase of 20.4% over the same period of last year. According to statistics, the largest metallurgical coal export areas in the United States are Norfolk, MoBayer and Baltimore.
Meanwhile, in terms of power coal, the total export volume of power coal in the United States in 2018 was 49.1 million tons, up 29.8% from last year, the highest level since 2012. India, South Korea and the Netherlands are respectively the top three buyers of power coal in the United States. Among them, the total amount of power coal exported to India in 2018 was 10.5 million tons, up 53% from 2017; Korea 5.8 million tons, up 9.6% from last year; Netherlands 5.6 million tons, up 3.2% from last year.
New Orleans is the largest power coal export region in the United States. Exports reached 17.6 million tons in 2018, up 75% from 2017, followed by 10.1 million tons in Baltimore, up 9.5% from last year, and 6 million tons in Seattle, up 10.6% from last year.
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