Coal transport and Coking coal

Their prices have moved together.

Coal transport (energy) and Coking coal (energy): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: freight cost

Cost and price · Strong · Both ways

Coking coal moves by rail to port and then by sea to mills in Asia, so freight is a large part of its delivered cost. The proxy price correlates with a US rail freight index at 0.22 monthly and 0.66 yearly, a shared fuel and demand cycle.

• 0.21 monthly change correlation
• 0.66 12-month change correlation
• 1.57 fitted elasticity

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.