BHP: Global Sea-Borne Coking Coal Demand CAGR At 4.9% Up To 2025
LONDON -(Dow Jones)- BHP Billiton Ltd. (BHP) said Tuesday that demand for coking coal traded overseas is forecast to grow at a 4.9% compounded annual growth rate between 2011 and 2025 with China and India contributing to the bulk of that growth.
This compares with a 2.4% compounded annual growth rate between 2000 and 2011 to 241 million metric tons of coking coal traded overseas in 2011. During that period, India and China became the world's largest importers of the steelmaking raw ingredient, accounting for about a quarter of the global sea-borne coking coal market in 2011, according to a BHP presentation published on its website.
The presentation was authored by Vicky Binns, general manager of metallurgical coal marketing at BHP.
Global demand for coking coal is forecast to rise due to the rapid pace of urbanization and industrialization in emerging markets where steel production continues to grow at a healthy pace.
China, the world's largest steel producer, is forecast to account for the bulk of the global steel production growth between 2011 and 2025, since many of China's large Chinese provinces are still in the early stages of the steel intensity curve, Binns said.
