U.S. Coal Exports GEO BreakDown

2007 U.S. Coal Exports Geographic BreakDown :

*Total 2007 U.S. Exports - Up 19% from 2006

Exports To Country - % Change from 2006

1.) Europe: Up 30% to 27.1 million tons
Slovakia - Up 424%
Netherlands - Up 118% to 4.6 m tons
Croatia - Up 116%
France - Up 47% to 2.4 m tons
Germany - Up 41% to 2.3 m tons
United Kingdom - Up 31% to 3.4 m tons
Romania - Up 28%
Turkey - Up 18% to 1.5m tons
Sweden - Up 14%
Italy - Up 8% to 3.5 m tons
Belgium - Down 3% to 2.1 m tons
Portugal - Down 4%
Spain - Down 9% to 1.5m tons
Slovenia - Down 39%
Bulgaria - Down 42%
Finland - Down 60%
Denmark - Down 79%

2.) North America: Down 7% to 19.2 million tons
Canada - Down 8% to 18.4 million tons
Mexico - Down 4%

3.) South America: Up 46% to 7.2 million tons
Brazil - Up 44% to 6.5 million tons
Argentina - Down 14%

4.) Africa: Up 229% to 4.5 million tons
Morocco - Up 768% to 2.4 million tons
Egypt - Up 113% to 1.5 million tons
South Africa - Up 101%
Algeria - Up 45%
Other - Down 47%

5.) Asia: Down 40% to 1.2 million tons
Japan - Down 98%
South Korea - Down 61%
India - Down 17% to 0.883 million tons
Other - Up 90%


http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/coal/quarterly/html/t7p01p1.html


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The Obvious Observations:

* The U.S. exported a total of 59 million short tons of Coal in 2007...19% growth over 2006 !

* The U.S. does NOT currently export coal to China (and very little to Asia overall...probably has to do with the transportation costs)

* Europe is the U.S.'s largest international customer region + consumed 46% of all U.S. coal exports in 2007

* The U.S.'s largest export customer BY FAR is Canada (down 8% yoy)...Canada consumed 31% of all U.S. coal exports in 2007

* The U.S.'s 2nd largest export customer is Brazil...exports to Brazil increased by 44% year over year and totaled 11% of all U.S. coal exports

* Europe's growth is ACROSS THE BOARD + led by the larger players - Netherlands (+118%), UK (+31%), France (+47%), Germany (+41%), etc.

Data Courtesy: EIA