Japan’s annual LNG imports fall 6.2% from record high
TOKYO, April 20 (Reuters) -- Japan's LNG imports fell 6.2% in the fiscal year ended March 31 from a year earlier to 83.571 million tons, preliminary trade data showed on Wednesday, marking the first drop in six years as some nuclear reactors restarted.
The decline was also the first since the Fukushima nuclear disaster, following a massive quake in 2011, drove purchases to successive records.
Thermal coal imports rose 1.7% to a record high of 112.139 million tons, while crude oil imports climbed 2.9% to 3.42 MMbpd (199.211 million kiloliters), customs-cleared data by the Ministry of Finance showed.
Japan, the world's fourth-biggest crude buyer, imported 4.17 MMbpd (20.542 million kiloliters) of crude oil last month, up 15.9%, marking the second-straight month of gains, the data showed.
Japan's imports of LNG totalled 8.149 million tons last month, up 0.1% from a year earlier, marking the first year-on-year rise in seven months. Imports of thermal coal for power generation declined 3% in March to 9.203 million tons, the data showed.
(Reporting by Osamu Tsukimori; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu)
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