Premium Low-Vol hard coking coal prices rose by around $8/mt since the start of February to $158.25/mt by February 18, on curtailed Mongolian and domestic coking coal supply. Despite China's central government urging mines and companies to resume operations, market sources remained skeptical that the situation would improve in the short-term. "Local governments have different policies on transportation and operations to contain [the] virus outbreak. These policies imposed restrictions on [the] resumption of operations and have caused a shortage in domestic coking coal supply," a Northern China end-user said
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