Ukraine: Ministry for economic development knows nothing about mining meeting
The Ministry for economic development and trade isn’t preparing any meeting on the mining-metallurgical questions, said the deputy minister Ruslan Korzh.
The Ministry for economic development and trade isn’t preparing any meeting on the mining-metallurgical questions, said the deputy minister Ruslan Korzh.
The government of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic is pondering selling coal to Europe and the Near East.
In January-November Ukraine mined 25195.6 thousand tons of ordinary coal, down from 36351 thousand tons last year.
The State Security Service and the State Fiscal Service have exposed a scheme to legalize coal, mined at the temporarily occupied territories.
The South African coal for Ukrainian thermal power stations would cost at least $70 per ton.
On December 9, the Russian president Putin ordered to resume coal deliveries to Ukraine.
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.