Jakarta. The chief executive of Adaro Energy, Indonesia's biggest coal miner by market capitalization, said thermal coal prices have bottomed and will increase in 2017 along with rising import demand from China and Southeast Asia. Cargo prices for Australian thermal coal from Newcastle ,...

With low coal prices early this year, coal miner PT Indo Tambangraya Megah (ITMG) managed to chart growth last year and therefore, analysts estimate that the company may maintain its growth. According to data from Bloomberg, coal prices listed in ICE Futures Europe as per export contracts in...

Indonesian stock fund manager Agus Yanuar has trounced his peers and the Jakarta Composite Index over the past year by riding a rebound in commodity prices. Now, the chief investment officer at PT Samuel Aset Manajemen says he’s sticking to his guns. Yanuar’s SAM Indonesian...

Feb 15 China rejected a shipment of coal from North Korea a day after the country testfired a ballistic missile in violation of international sanctions, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported on Wednesday. A load of around 16,295 tonnes of North Korean coal, estimated to be worth around...

Fancy a truckload of the world’s biggest coal miner? New Delhi is planning to sell a 10 percent stake in Coal India Ltd., the Economic Times reported Monday, without saying where it got the information. Such a deal could be worth about 197 billion rupees ($2.9 billion) at current...

The coal industry will begin to reverse its downward slide in 2017, according to U.S. data. Coal production is coming off its worst year since 1978, and for the first time, last year natural gas overtook coal as the dominant fuel for electricity generation in the U.S. Production of coal fell 18%...

Road blockages and bad weather in Kalimantan on the Indonesian side of Borneo island are being blamed for a disruption of coal supplies from one of the world’s most important export regions. Coal traders and ship operators cited several reasons for the loading delays. According to...

Coal-fired power generators were among the winners of contracts worth £378m to generate electricity next winter, highlighting the tension between government efforts to reduce carbon emissions and the need for energy security. Gas-fired power stations secured the biggest share of contracts...

“Clean coal” plants that the Turnbull government has flagged could get clean energy subsidies are more expensive than solar, wind and gas-fired power and would lead to higher electricity price rises, analysts have warned. Support for what the government calls “clean coal”...

Japan’s biggest electricity wholesaler knows it’ll take more than cutting-edge coal technology to save the environment. Electric Power Development Co., known as J-Power, is looking to build its first major power plant that burns natural gas near cities such as Tokyo as well as use...