Ukraine: miners not paid wages in full

In March salary debts to miners were 70-75% cleared. Salary debts have been partially cleared at Selidovugol and Volynugol. Lvivugol received 17.2 million UAH from the state and decided to spend 10 million UAH from coal sales to pay salary, so, it was able to clear 88% of the debt. Krasnoarmeyskugol miners still haven’t received…

Ukraine: coal output up in January-April 2016

In January-April Ukraine mined 13.51 million tons of power-generating and coking coal, up by 9% YoY. According to the Ministry of energy and coal industry, state mines yielded 2.1 million tons, or 15.6% of the total volume. State mines output fall reached 6.8%. In April Ukraine mined 3.48 million tons of coal, with 501.4 thousand…

Ukraine: metal output up in January-April 2016

In January-April Ukrainian metal companies produced 8.23 million tons of carbon steel, up by 16.4% YoY. Pig iron output increased by 22.3%, to 7.87 million tons, that of rolled metal – by 17.1%, to 7.22 million tons, coke output went up by 34.9%, to 4.44 million tons, while that of steel pipes dropped by 10.4%,…