Indonesia’s manufacturing industry kept positive growth at 10.11 percent in the first quarter of 2020 amid the pressure caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Those products enjoyed high export revenues in 2019.

BHP is one of the world's largest exporters of iron ore and hard coking coal. It also ships thermal coal and copper.

Overall Russian coal output fell in the first quarter of this year, but some coking coal mining firms raised output.

The company did not provide a new figure. The guidance was previously revised downwards from an initial 10mn t.

Gladstone, DBCT, Hay Point and Abbot Point operated at a combined utilisation rate of just 75pc in 2019 and the distribution was uneven.

Integrated steelmaker ArcelorMittal is taking a planned outage at one of the blast furnaces at its Burns Harbor mill.

On a quarterly basis, steel demand would be a washout in the first quarter of this fiscal, given the pan-India lockdown that would hurt construction.