Coal transport and Tankers, barges and fuel trucks

Their prices have moved together.

Coal transport (energy) and Tankers, barges and fuel trucks (energy): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: competing freight

Cost and price · Strong · Both ways

Export coal leaves ports in bulk carriers, and rail and sea freight both respond to trade volumes and fuel. The deep sea freight proxy correlates with rail rates at 0.30 for monthly moves and 0.67 for yearly moves.

• 0.30 monthly change correlation
• 0.67 12-month change correlation
• 0.65 fitted elasticity

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