{"id":70590,"date":"2026-01-31T00:56:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T03:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shipping.einnews.com\/article\/888155775"},"modified":"2026-01-31T00:56:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T03:56:41","slug":"dry-bulk-shipping-eu-coal-imports-fell-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/2026\/01\/31\/dry-bulk-shipping-eu-coal-imports-fell-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Dry Bulk Shipping: EU Coal Imports Fell in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

S<\/span>eaborne coal imports into the EU fell further during 2025. In its latest weekly report, shipbroker Banchero Costa said that \u201cin Jan-Dec 2025, global seaborne coal loadings declined by -2.8% y-o-y to 1,333.1 mln t (excluding cabotage), based on vessel tracking data from AXS Marine. In Jan-Dec 2025, exports from Indonesia declined by -6.9% y-o-y to 496.1 mln tonnes, whilst from Australia were down by -0.4% y-o-y to 354.6 mln t. From Russia exports increased by +6.5% y-o-y to 172.6 mln t in Jan-Dec 2025, from the USA declined by -10.6% y-o-y to 81.0 mln t, from South Africa increased by +3.8% y-oy to 64.5 mln t. Shipments from Colombia declined by -14.9% y-o-y to 47.6 mln t in JanDec 2025, from Canada by -2.7% y-oy to 47.9 mln t, from Mozambique by -2.7% t-o-y to 20.7 mln t\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Source: Banchero Costa<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

According to Banchero Costa, \u201cseaborne coal imports into Mainland China declined by -11.1% y-o-y to 379.7 mln t in Jan-Dec 2025. Imports to India declined by -5.6% yo-y to 223.2 mln t, to Japan declined by -3.6% y-o-y to 151.5 mln t in JanDec 2025, to South Korea down by -3.2% y-o-y to 106.7 mln t. Imports to Vietnam declined by -0.2% y-o-y to 56.4 mln t, whilst to Taiwan volumes declined by -5.7% yo-y to 52.7 mln tonnes. To the EU imports were down by -1.4% y-o-y to 63.7 mln tonnes in Jan-Dec 2025, and to Turkey went down -4.5%% y-o-y to 36.2 mln t\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe European Union is now the fifth largest seaborne importer of coal in the world, after China, India, Japan and South Korea. In 2024, the EU accounted for 4.7% of global seaborne coal shipments, down from 9.9% in 2022. The EU\u2019s seaborne coal imports surged in 2021 by +23.3% y-o-y to 92.3 mln t and then again in 2022 by +38.2% y-o-y to 127.6 mln tonnes as a consequence of lower gas imports from Russia, but have now again softened back. However, already in 2023, European imports declined sharply by -30.4% y-o-y to 88.8 mln tonnes, and then further by -27.2% y-o-y in 2024 to 64.6 mln tonnes\u201d, the shipbroker said.<\/p>\n

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Source: Banchero Costa<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Banchero Costa added that \u201cthis essentially returns Europe to a previous trend where it progressively abandoned coal as a source of energy and embraced natural gas and renewables. We already saw European coal imports declining by -32.9% y-o-y in 2020, by -18.3% y-o-y in 2019, by -7.6% y-o-y in 2018. This year things flattened out, with imports of 63.7 mln tonnes in JanDec 2025, down marginally by -1.4% y-o-y, still 50% down from 2022. In terms of sources of the shipments, Europe was heavily dependant on Russia, but this has now drastically changed. In 2021, as much as 44% of the EU\u2019s seaborne coal imports were sourced from Russian ports. In 2025, as a result of the war in Ukraine, this proportion declined to 9.5%, which also includes Kazakh coal shipped through Russian ports. In Jan-Dec 2025, coal imports to the EU from Russian ports surprisingly rebounded by +64.5% y-o-y to 6.1 mln t from a low of 3.7 mln t in JanDec 2024, but still -80% down from the 38.3 mln t in Jan-Dec 2021. The most important supplier to Europe in Jan-Dec 2025 was the USA, accounting for 28.5% of Europe\u2019s imports. In Jan-Dec 2025, volumes from the USA to the EU increased by +1.2% yo-y to 18.2 mln t, but were still well below the 24.2 mln t in Jan-Nov 2023. The second largest supplier to Europe is Australia, accounting for 23.2% of the EU\u2019s imports in 2025. In Jan-Dec 2025, imports from Australia to the EU declined by -15.9% y-o-y to 14.8 mln t. In third place is Colombia, with a 14.5% share in 2025. In Jan-Dec 2025, volumes from Colombia to the EU increased by +1.6% y-o-y to 9.2 mln t, although this is well below the 14.8 mln t in Jan-Dec 2023\u201d, the shipbroker concluded.
Nikos Roussanoglou, Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide<\/p>\n

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