Dec 20 (LNGJ) - Japan’s November LNG imports declined almost 4 percent to 5.33 million tonnes, or 79 cargoes, compared with 5.55MT, or 82 cargoes, in November 2022, the Finance Ministry said in its provisional trade statistic. Most of the deliveries came from Australia or the spot market and these amounted to 3.03 million tonnes.
Imports from the US were down more than 50 percent year-on-year to 191,000 tonnes. Deliveries from the Middle East were also lower by more than half at 481,000 tonnes. LNG shipments from Asian export plants to Japanese terminals increased by 5 percent to 1.63MT while deliveries from Russia amounted to 446,000 tonnes, down by 14.4 percent from November 2022. Thermal coal imports fell 2.4 percent to 8.31MT.
