Mongolian Q1 coal exports soar 114% on year

Over January-March, Mongolia’s total coal exports surged 113.7% on year to 6.7 million tonnes, among which 93.5% were to China, and the second largest destination was Singapore, which accounted for 5.8% of the total, according to Mongolia’s Customs data on April 12.

China has always been the top destination of Mongolian coal exports, while Singapore’s portion grewfrom the 3.7% for 2020 and the 0.9% for 2019 whole year, according to the data. As for March alone, Mongolia exported 2.1 million tonnes of coal for all utilisations, up 5.7% on month, mainly as