The state power-generating company Centrenergo expects another cargo vessel with 85 thousand tons of South African coal around January 25, 2016. The coal will be delivered for Zmiyevskaya thermal power station in Kharkiv region.
In January-November Ukrainian by-product coke plants imported 9.1 million tons of ordinary coking coal and coal concentrate, up by 1% YoY.
After the energy blockade of Crimea was lifted, Ukraine-uncontrolled territories of Donbass resumed supplying coal to thermal power stations.
On December 10, for the first time since 1992 Almaznaya mine of DTEK Dobropolyeugol mined its 1 million tons of coal.
In 2015 Ukraine decreased coal imports from Russia thrice, and increased imports from the South African Republic twice.
Increase in railroad tariffs would worsen the coal industry crisis, leaving dozens of thousand of miners jobless.
The administration of Lugansk region has reported that due to the halt of the Pervomayskaya mine bilge complex mine waters could cause an industrial disaster.
In January-November Ukraine imported $1509.52 million worth of coal (black coal and anthracite), with $136.52 in November.
