Metallurgical Coal Market Insight, News and Analysis

Secure your position in the global metallurgical coal market

Our service integrates three deliverables to ensure you anticipate opportunity as well as risk across the world’s met coal markets. Each day, you receive the Inside Coal report with key metallurgical coal price indices, breaking headline news, freight rates and port throughput. Each quarter, we publish the Metallurgical Coal Quarterly, which provides a 36-month and 10-year outlook for met coal supply, demand, production, price and trade. The biweekly IHS McCloskey Coal report wraps everything up in a summary of the global met and steam coal industry, including benchmark coal indices, freight rates and swaps.

Enterprise-wide access to service content through our online platform IHS Connect^™ allows you to:

Understand key factors driving met coal markets regionally and globally
Optimize trades, investments, purchases and sales
Leverage benchmark metallurgical coal prices
Anticipate impact of steel industry shifts on metallurgical coal demand
Recognize market trends and capitalize on inflexion points

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What's Included

Metallurgical Coal Quarterly

Quarterly publication with short- and medium-term forecasts of the international met coal trade for hard coking coal, semi-soft and PCI coals:

36-month global outlooks (three issues/year)
10-year forecast (one issue/year)
Executive summary of supply, demand, price
Latest available export data from all major metallurgical coal exporting countries
MCQ Supply Database:
- Export and supply developments
- Country-by-country analysis of all key exporters
MCQ Demand Model:
- Proprietary forecasts of met coal demand by country/region

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Inside Coal

Daily publication, providing breaking news on the international coking (met) coal market:

Met coal news, analysis and insight
Content from IHS steel teams, putting into context how movements in steel markets affect met coal
Introduction of global freight rates
Daily coking coal index tracking the spot price for:
- Queensland premium hard coking coal (East coast Australia)
- Hampton Roads Low Vol. coking coal (US)
- Hampton Roads Hi Vol. coking coal (US)
Incorporating all IHS coking coal marker prices, plus freight rates and port throughput

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IHS McCloskey Coal Report

Delivered every two weeks, a report featuring major global stories with in-depth analysis and data:

Global metallurgical and steam coal trade and price analysis
Global mergers and acquisitions
Global transport, logistics and freight
Global mining, power and steel
Global production, consumption, import/export analysis
Analysis of electricity/carbon markets
Comprehensive listing of all benchmark coal indices, freight rates and swaps

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