[ Las revisiones del RCDE de la UE podrían retrasar los costos totales del carbono para los exportadores turcos de acero ]

Dow Jones y SGX Group firmaron un acuerdo de licencia de índices el 13 de agosto para desarrollar futuros y swaps que sigan el McCloskey Australian FOB Second-Tier HCC Index. Los productos propuestos pretenden ofrecer a siderúrgicas, mineras y operadores físicos una herramienta de cobertura más directa para el carbón coquizable duro de segunda categoría. Siguen sujetos a los procedimientos regulatorios, y no se ha divulgado una fecha de lanzamiento formal ni las especificaciones completas del contrato

A Russian airstrike hit ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine’s largest steel plant, early on August 16, killing at least two people and injuring 14. The company said key production facilities in its power generation and blast furnace sectors were damaged and that some production processes had been halted. It did not disclose the number of affected blast furnaces, production losses or an expected restart date.

The New South Wales government has granted MACH Energy’s Mount Pleasant coal mine a six-year operating extension through the end of 2032. The mine’s existing approval was due to expire in December. The new approval also raises its annual extraction limit from 10.5 million tonnes to 12.5 million tonnes, an increase of 2 million tonnes or approximately 19.0%. Furthermore, MACH Energy’s separate proposal to operate through 2048 and extract an additional 247 million tonnes remains before the High Court of Australia .