BHP said on Oct. 14 that it has been asked to defer some shipments of coking coal to China because of new restrictions imposed by the Chinese government on Australian coal imports. Not registered? Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now BHP chairman Ken MacKenzie told the media after the company’s annual general meeting in Melbourne on Oct. 14 that there were “new developments relating to how China plans and moderates imports versus its own domestic coal production.” “Our commercial team has recently received deferment requests from some of our Chinese customers,” Australian media reported MacKenzie as saying. Coking coal exports from BHP’s Hay Point coal export terminal in Queensland have already been falling this year. Exports in the July-September quarter stood at 10.8 million mt compared with 12.4 million mt in the same period a year earlier, North Queensland Bulk Ports […]