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Correction to FOB Australia PHCC index on March 18

Fastmarkets has corrected its fob Australia premium hard coking coal index, which was published incorrectly on Monday March 18 due to a technical error.

March 18, 2024
By Bella Cheng
Coal Pricing notice

Fastmarkets’ index for premium hard coking coal, fob DBCT, was published in error as $267.79 per tonne. This has now been corrected to $267.08 per tonne.

Fastmarkets’ pricing database had been updated to reflect this change.

The price is part of the Fastmarkets steelmaking raw materials package.

For more information, or to provide feedback on this correction notice, or if you would like to provide price information by becoming a data submitter to this index, please contact Bella Cheng by email at: pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “FAO: Bella Cheng re: fob Australia PHCC index.”

Please indicate if comments are confidential. Fastmarkets will consider all comments received and will make comments not marked as confidential available upon request.

To see all Fastmarkets’ pricing methodology and specification documents, go to https://www.fastmarkets.com/methodology.

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