Ukraine: state mines get no money for modernization
For the past 8 months state mines received no money for the equipment modernization, said the minister for energy and coal industry Vladimir Demchyshin.
For the past 8 months state mines received no money for the equipment modernization, said the minister for energy and coal industry Vladimir Demchyshin.
The State administration of the railroad transport of Ukraine (Ukrzaliznytsya) has no problems with coal deliveries from the anti-terrorist operation zone in the East.
To understand the impact of events in Donetsk and Lugansk on the Ukrainian coal industry, two main questions need to first be answered:
The occupied territories face problems with fuel, machinery and railroad, said the Ministry for energy and coal ministry Vladimir Demchyshin.
By the end of September Ukraine would have received the first ships with coal from the South African Republic.
In August Ukraine mined 3171 thousand tons of coal, down by 30.5% from the planned results.
Centrenergo, desperately needing power-generating coal due to the military activity at Donbass, has imported the first 30 thousand tons of coal from Russia for Zmeyevka and Tripolye Thermal Power Stations.
As of August 18th coal stocks at the thermal power stations decreased by 0.18%, or by 2.3 thousand tons, to 1277.8 thousand tons (including 573.9 thousand tons of anthracite and 25.05 thousand tons of fuel oil), as compared with August 17th.