Annual Outlook for Coking Coal will help you answer the following questions:

• How high can prices rise in the short and medium term?
• Is supply likely to expand more aggressively over the medium term or will existing constraints continue to hamper growth?
• What is the outlook for steel production and prices and how will this impact on price levels for coal?
• What is the trend in fuel rates and how is the expansion in coal injection likely to affect demand for coking coal over the coming decade?

The Annual Outlook for Coking Coal builds on CRU’s established reputation as the foremost analyst of the markets for steelmaking raw materials.

Demand

• Full breakdown on a country-by-country basis.
• By country historical and forecast trends for iron and steel, crude and  integrated production, coke production and coal consumed in coke production
• Coal consumption broken down into hard and weak coking coal.
• Coal injection rates and coal consumed in coal injection for each country.
• Expected coal demand to change over the forecast period, including forecast trends in iron and steel production for the near, medium and longer term.
• Likely changes in coal injection rates and the split between hard and weak coal demand.
• Impact of technical developments on future demand.

Supply

• Profiles of all of the exporting companies in the main exporting countries.
• For each exporting company and/or country historical and forecast (five year) data for production and exports of hard and weak coking coal is provided.
• Outlook for coal demand and supply in China over the next decade.
• Historical and forecast imports and exports of hard and weak coking coal.

Price forecasts

• Pricing and historical analysis plus a full explanation on the rationale behind the price forecasts.

Forecast horizon

• Year-by-year forecasts to 2012, plus a long term forecast for 2017.

Contact
For more information, please contact:

Richard Pell
Steel Sales Manager
tel: +44 20 7903 2166
email: richard.pell@crugroup.com