Coal prices in Ningbo continued to drop in April

According to the monitoring system of Ningbo's important means of production market monitoring system, in April 2023, the city's average coal price was 1,099 yuan/ton, a month-on-month decrease of 4.1%. Among them, bituminous coal was 908 yuan/ton, a month-on-month decrease of 0.7%; anthracite was 1,290 yuan/ton, a month-on-month decrease of 6.4%. At present, the overall coal market transaction is relatively deserted. On the one hand, the demand for civil electricity is sluggish, and the pace of destocking and procurement of downstream power plants has slowed down, making it difficult to form a procurement scale. sales strategy. It is expected that as the temperature rises in the later period, the demand for coal used in electricity is expected to boost, and the coal price may stabilize and rise, but overall, the price operation will continue to maintain a weak trend of shocks.