The European Union’s recent initiation of an anti-dumping (AD) investigation into hot-rolled flat steel imports from Egypt, India, Japan, and Vietnam has triggered significant responses from global market participants. Concerns are rising over the potential impact on supply chains and pricing across the steel industry…
In a significant shift toward renewable energy and emissions reduction, Indonesia and Japan are advancing their biomass usage
Japan’s power sector is accelerating the phasing out of inefficient coal-fired plants to help reduce the country’s greenhouse gas emissions.
Japan’s Jera and engineering firm IHI have started a demonstration of co-firing 20pc of fuel ammonia with coal
JERA’s upcoming co-firing trial at the Hekinan Thermal Power Station, involving a combination of ammonia and coal…
Japan’s energy mix is in flux as the country slowly brings idled nuclear reactors online. The Fukushima disaster upended their power generation
Asia’s imports of seaborne thermal coal eased from record highs in January as top buyers China and India saw arrivals ease.
Thermal coal demand in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan could start taking a back seat over the next few years amid tight net-zero targets
Japan’s reliance on Russian thermal coal continues to decline, with December 2023 imports dropping 71% year-on-year.
Trade statistics from the Ministry of Finance of Japan show that Japan’s total coal imports in December 2023 were 14.4128 million tons
In CY’23, steel exports demonstrated their initial upturn in two years, recording a 1.3% y-o-y increase to reach 32.356 million tonnes (mnt)
A massive earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 struck the Noto Peninsula in the northern part of Ishikawa prefecture in Japan