Ukraine: coal stocks down in December 2015
As of January 1, coal stocks in Ukraine totaled 6399.3 thousand tons, down by 1.2% MoM.
As of January 1, coal stocks in Ukraine totaled 6399.3 thousand tons, down by 1.2% MoM.
Coal mining in Ukraine (without the temporarily occupied territories of Crimea and the ATO Zone) in 2015 fell by 36.8% YoY, to 28.2 million tons.
The Lviv customs office lost 4 million UAH for each day the miners were blocking Lviv – Rava-Russkaya road.
In 2015 Donetsk region companies mined 14.36 million tons of coal.
Several Ukrainian mines and one processing factory will be sold to a Switzerland-based company without any connection to coal industry.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has accepted the usage of budget funds to increase capital stocks of mining companies in order to clear salary debts to miners.
A Lugansk region mining company has been suspected of tax evasion (4 million UAH).
The Cabinet of Ministers plans to settle the matter of clearing salary debts to miners.