FLASH: Shanxi receives Indonesian coking coal via Jingtang port

A train loaded with 3,200 tonnes of imported Indonesian coking coal departed Jingtang port in North China's Hebei province on Monday, heading west for Xiaonan in Xiaoyi City, Shanxi province, according to a disclosure on the Hebei provincial government website on August 25.

The journey was remarkable for it represented the official launch of the "Jingtang-Xiaonan" Indonesia coking coal train service to China's top producing region of this steelmaking material. The corridor establishment comes in response to a coking-coal supply gap across Shanxi, China's largest met coal-producing region that supplies close to half