The Ministry of energy and coal industry has asked the Ministry of foreign affairs to inform 8 countries about the risk of illegal coal deliveries from the temporarily occupied regions. According to the ministry letter, such information has to be transferred to the Ukrainian embassies in Turkey, the Netherlands, Spain, Moldova, Bulgaria, Belgium, Poland and…
Rosterminalugol JSC, the largest dedicated coal port in the Baltic region, a part of Russia’s largest coal port holding Port Management Company LLC, has exported 10 million tons of coal this year. The milestone ton was loaded on June 12 onto Post-Panamax Nordic Odin, the 151st vessels handled from the year beginning (the 11th in…
DTEK buys its coal in Russia, despite the fact that in Rotterdam it’s cheaper. The anthracite that DTEK delivers from its own mines in Rostov region costs $95 per ton. Taking into account the basic fuel value the Russian anthracite is $13-15 per ton more expensive. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-May Kemerovo region enterprises mined 97.3 million tons of coal, up by 8% YoY. According to the regional administration, in particular, 72.4 million tons of power-generating coal and 24.9 million tons of coking coal, up by 13.1% and down by 1% YoY respectively. (Ukrainian metal)
Coal stocks at Ukrainian thermal power plants from June 6 through June 12 increased by 1.8%, to 2.52 million tons. According to the Ministry of energy and coal industry, anthracite coal stocks increased by 6.8%, to 608.8 thousand tons, gas-coal – by 0.4%, to 1.91 million tons. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-May Russian coal exports increased by 6% YoY, to 73.528 million tons. According to the Ministry of energy, in May Russia exported 15.347 million tons of coal. In January-May coal mining totaled 165.626 million tons. (Ukrainian metal)
The Novovolynskaya No. 9 mine first shift miners refused to get into the shaft because of the non-payment of salary, but after negotiations with the management, went underground. “The reason of the protest is the non-payment of salary. They have been paid 54% of April salary, and have seen no money since then. While the…
The coal terminal of the Eastern mining company is increasing coal throughput. In early June the coal seaport of Shakhtersk exported 1-millionth ton of coal. Last year such a volume was reached on June 23, thus the port improved its indexes by 3 weeks. In late May the port also set a daily record of…