Mechel believes some 70 per cent of its coking coal export would be consumed by Asian markets now that the company
re-focuses its sales away from Europe, Benoit de Meulemeester (Mechel Carbon, CEO) says.
"We will export about 13 million tonnes of metallurgical coal this year, of which 8.3 million tonnes will reach Asia. Of that, 6.5 million [tonnes] will go to China," de Meulemeester said in an exclusive interview to Steel First.