DAILY: Logistical pressure eases in China's met coke market

China's metallurgical coke market saw an easing of logistical pressure alongside the early completion of the Daqin rail line's month-long spring maintenance. This has allowed normal material deliveries to downstream steelmakers, while the overall tight fundamental landscape could still lend support to coke prices.

On April 28, Mysteel's assessment of the national quasi-first-grade met coke prices, for dry- and wet-quenching types, sat at Yuan 1,623.6/tonne ($237.5/t) and Yuan 1,472.7/t including the VAT, respectively, both unchanged from the last session. Sources reported that coke shipments to steel mills are generally on track to recover to