WEEKLY: Stocks at China's met coal wash plants continue shrinking

The 110 affiliated and independent coking coal wash plants under Mysteel's tracking saw another notable slide in their processed coking coal stocks during July 16-22, Mysteel's latest survey results showed, as their customers among the metallurgical coke producers rushed to replenish their inventories of washed coking coal feeds.

During the survey week, the combined inventories of processed coking coal held by the 110 sampled wash plants dropped for the sixth straight week by a large 8.3% to 1.76 million tonnes as of July 22, the lowest level since October last year. Meanwhile, another Mysteel survey among the 230