據4月21日Offshore Energy消息：日本液化天然氣進口量已是連續第三個月下降。全球最大的液化天然氣進口國日本上月收到720萬噸液化天然氣，比去年同期下降1.2%。

根據日本財政部發布的初步數據，3月份日本液化天然氣進口成本約35.6億美元，同比下降13.5%。數據顯示，來自馬來西亞和印度尼西亞等亞洲國家的液化天然氣供應量增長0.1%，至174萬噸。

來自卡塔爾等地的中東液化天然氣供應量下降29.4%，至93.7萬噸。

來自俄羅斯的供應量下降了0.2%，至52.2萬噸，而美國的供應量幾乎翻了一番，至39.4萬噸。

另一方面，由于液化天然氣進口呈下降趨勢，日本增加了用于發電的煤炭進口量。商務部的數據顯示，日本3月份進口煤炭988萬噸，同比增長3.4%。

馮娟 摘譯自 Offshore Energy

原文如下：

Japan’s monthly LNG imports continue to decline

Japanese imports of liquefied natural gas continued to decline this year and they dropped for the third consecutive month in March.

Japan, the world’s largest importer of LNG, received 7.2 million tonnes of the fuel last month, down 1.2 per cent from a year earlier.

March LNG imports cost Japan about $3.56 billion, a decline of 13.5 per cent year-on-year, according to the provisional data released by Japan’s Ministry of Finance.

LNG deliveries from Asia from countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia increased by 0.1 per cent to 1.74 million tones, the data shows.

Middle East LNG shipments from sources like Qatar declined by 29.4 per cent to 937,000 tonnes.

Shipments from Russia dropped 0.2 percent to 522,000 tonnes while US deliveries almost doubled to 394,000 tonnes.

On the other side, as LNG imports show a downward trend, Japan boosted coal imports for power generation.

Japan imported 9.88 million tonnes of coal in March, a rise of 3.4 per cent year-on-year, the ministry’s data shows.