According to the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) weekly production report, year-to-date U.S. metallurgical exports for February 2014 were up 3.4% as compared to the February last year (5.5mt v. 5.3mt) and steam coal exports were off by 0.7% (3.27mt v. 3.3mt). Coal imports were up by 51% from last year for the same month (0.583mt v. 0.385mt).

West Virginia’s 2014 year-to-date production, through 4/26, was down 0.5% statewide when compared to the same period in 2013 (38mt v. 38.2mt), with northern WV production down 0.3% (13.8mt v. 13.9mt) and southern WV was off 0.5% (24.1mt v. 24.3mt). U.S. year-to-date production through 4/26 was down 0.5% (313.8mt v. 315.2mt). There were 117,562 railroad cars loaded last week in the United States.