MONTHLY: China's met coke outlook for Apr turns optimistic

The prospect for China's metallurgical coke market in April turns optimistic, with potential supply disruptions offering new support after a short-lived pessimism developed due to steelmakers' boycott of higher coke prices, Mysteel predicts in its latest monthly report.

Mysteel has learned from sources that several coke plants in North China's Shanxi province have scheduled facility maintenance this month, which could tighten supplies of this feed material to Tangshan city, the country's top steelmaking hub in North China's Hebei province. The actual implementation of the maintenance plan, however, will