Japan's coking coal imports reached a six-month high in March.

The vast majority of its business is in the flat steel sector, commercial head of flat and long products Pankaj Kumar Purohit told Argus. About 90pc of its tonnage is coils and sheets.

Electric arc furnace (EAF) steelmaker Nucor has kept its plate prices flat.

Coronado confirms abandoned talks with Arch

Integrated steelmaker US Steel in October will take a scheduled blast furnace outage at its Mon Valley Works mill in Pennsylvania.

US hot-rolled coil (HRC) prices edged down recently as mills tried to maintain prices, but some lower offers were reported in the market.

World Coal Association favours just energy transition to net zero future

Only way to solve Eskom, Transnet problems is to work as SA Inc, conference hears