The Scythia Graeca bulker with 75,000 tons of anthracite from South Africa for thermal power plants (TPPs) of DTEK Energo arrived in the Chornomorsk seaport (Odessa region) on November 3, the company’s press service has reported.
The unloading of the vessels has been started. Coal will be delivered to the warehouses of Kryvy Rih TPP, which stocked 67,000 tons of anthracite as of November 5.
“Some 525,000 tons out of 675,000 tons of South African anthracite have arrived in Ukraine. This coal would allow our anthracite-burning TPPs to maintain the power grid and provide consumers with stable power supply,” DTEK Energo Director for Power Generation Serhiy Kurylenko said.
DTEK Energy CEO Dmytro Sakharuk in late October said that the company had not yet contracted additional amounts of coal from South Africa to be supplied in Q1 and Q2 2018 due to the vagueness with the tariffs for electricity transmission next year. (Interfax-Ukraine/Ukrainian metal)