The price of South African coal is $65 per ton CIF Odessa. Together with port fees and transportation expenses it reaches $80 per ton (or 1920 UAH per ton), which is higher than 1100-1600 UAH per ton that Centrenergo used to pay for coal from Russia or the terrorists-controlled Donbass.
Ukraine has enough coal for 45-50 days, says the minister for energy and coal industry Vladimir Demchyshin, and soon imported coal would arrive that would stabilize the situation.
The state committee has put into operation a new long face at the Pavlogradskoye Mine Group with enough coal for 1.5 years.
In 2015 the mine group put four new long faces into operation.
Ukraine will use 250 thousand tons of anthracite coal from SAR in less than a month. So this coal will not solve this winter’s problem.
Delivery of Russian coal to Ukrainian companies of Evraz has been temporarily stopped.
DTEK could import coal by sea only if the state enterprise Energorynok pays all its debts to the company.
Coking coal deliveries from Russia stopped several days ago, said Metinvest CEO Yuri Ryzhenkov.
