Chinese buyers held back from spot coking coal purchases ahead of the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays.
Seaborne offers were available, but bids and completed trades were scarce.
Weak downstream restocking and falling prices reduced buyers’ urgency.
Fastmarkets’ premium hard coking coal index, CFR Jingtang, fell $0.87 to $296.56 per wet metric tonne on September 23.
Traders also reported little appetite for spot pulverized coal injection coal.
