The invasion of Ukraine has sent European coal buyers on the hunt further afield for the commodity as they seek to replace Russian volumes.
The moves have brought back the rare trade from South Africa to the continent and even sparked shipments from as far away as Indonesia.
A TradeWinds review of satellite tracking data from VesselsValue shows at least three laden kamsarmax bulkers in the Atlantic whose last port of call was the Richards Bay Coal Terminal in South Africa.
