Taiwan's August Coal Imports Increase 2.4% to 5.36 Million Tons

By Yu-huay Sun

Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Taiwan, which imports all of its coal, increased purchases of the fuel for a second month in August.

Shipments climbed 2.4 percent from a year earlier to 5.36 million metric tons, the Bureau of Energy said in an e-mailed report today. Coal imports rose 7 percent in July.

Coal accounts for about a third of Taiwan's energy supplies.

To contact the reporter on the story: Yu-huay Sun in Taipei ysun7@bloomberg.net