Baltimore port 終結 could dent US coal 輸出（する） 容積／容量s, EIA says
March 28 (Reuters) - 停止（させる）d shipping traffic from the Port of Baltimore, the second-largest U.S. 中心 for coal 輸出（する）s, will slow the growth in U.S. coal 輸出（する）s and 減ずる （船に）燃料を積み込む／（軍）地下えんぺい壕 燃料 use, the Energy （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） 行政 (EIA) said on Thursday.
Coal 輸出（する）s from the busy U.S. port have been 混乱に陥れる／中断させるd に引き続いて the 崩壊（する） of Baltimore's Francis Scott 重要な 橋（渡しをする） which was struck by a 大規模な 貨物 ship 早期に Tuesday morning.
"Since the port is a major 輸送 point for freight and 本体，大部分／ばら積みの 大型船s, we 推定する／予想する （船に）燃料を積み込む／（軍）地下えんぺい壕 燃料 消費 to 減少（する）," the EIA 追加するd.
Baltimore 扱うd 輸出（する）s of 28 million short トンs last year, making up 28% of total U.S. coal 輸出（する）s and second only to the Hampton Roads port in Norfolk, Virginia, によれば 国勢（人口）調査 data.
"An attractive feature of the Port of Baltimore is its proximity to the northern Appalachia coal fields in western Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia," the EIA said.
"Other nearby ports, most 顕著に Hampton Roads, have 付加 capacity to 輸出（する） coal, although factors 含むing coal 質, pricing, and scheduling will 影響する／感情 how easily companies can switch to 輸出（する）ing from another port."
About 19 million short トンs of the 輸出（する）s in 2023 were steam coal, used to 生成する 力／強力にする and heat, and the remaining 9 million short トンs were metallurgical coal, an 成分 in steelmaking.
India was the 最高の，を越す 目的地 for steam coal over the last five years, where the brick 製造業の 産業 is a major 顧客, while metallurgical coal went to さまざまな Asian countries 含むing Japan, 中国, and South Korea, the EIA said.
Baltimore also 輸入するd 3,000 バーレル／樽s per day (bpd) of biodiesel in 2023, mostly from Centr al America and Western Europe, と一緒に 4,000 bpd of asphalt from Canada and 2,000 bpd of urea ammonium nitrate 大部分は from Russia.
More 広範囲にわたって used 精製するd oil 製品s are いっそう少なく 影響する／感情d, the EIA 公式文書，認めるd. (報告（する）／憶測ing by 深い Vakil in Bengaluru Editing by Ros Russell )
