WEEKLY: Chinese met coke makers' stocks pile up for 3 weeks

During the week to May 29, inventories of metallurgical coke among 230 independent met coke producers Mysteel usually tracks jumped by 7.2% from the week-ago level to reach 783,300 tonnes, the results of Mysteel's latest survey show. This marked its rise for three consecutive weeks, back to a high in more than two months, Mysteel Global notes.

During the survey week, as the output of hot metal in China had fallen into a downward trajectory alongside the sluggish steel sales, steelmakers slowed down their feedstock replenishment even for immediate production needs. Some mills in Lvliang city, North China's Shanxi province, for example, were heard controlling their