WASHINGTON -- According to the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) weekly production report, year-to-date U.S. metallurgical exports through April 2014 were down 6.1% as compared to the same period last year (22mt v. 23.5mt) and steam coal exports were off by 22.7% (13.8mt v. 17.8mt).
Coal imports were up by 60.8% for the same year-to-date period (3.4mt v. 2.1mt). West Virginia’s 2014 year-to-date production, through 5/31, was down 0.4% statewide when compared to the same period in 2013 (49.5mt v. 49.8mt), with northern WV production down 0.5% (18.16mt v. 118.24mt) and southern WV was off 0.4% (31.4mt v. 31.5mt).
U.S. year-to-date production through 5/31 was even with the same period last year (407.9mt). There were 116,972 railroad cars loaded last week, ending 5/31, in the United States.