Russia sells coal from the territory of Donbas not controlled by the Ukrainian authorities to Turkey and possibly to Poland, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has said. Klimkin said that Russia blended Ukrainian coal with its own coal so that it could not be identified. “Then the coal goes to Turkey. Now the investigation is…
In January-September Sakhalin region mined 8.2 million tons of coal, up 1.5-fold YoY. Solntsevskiy Coal Pit LLC provided for the most yield – 5 million tons. The rest was mined by 9 other companies. In 2017 the region mined 7.6 million tons, up by 9.7% YoY, with 4 million tons contributed by Solntsevskiy Coal Pit.…
In September Ukraine increased coal imports by 1.5% YoY, to $215.429 million, while exports grew by 99.5%, to $0.034 million. According to the State Fiscal Service, the main supplier was Russia ($136.23 million). In January-September Ukraine imported $2191.76 million worth of coal, up by 15.4% YoY, while exports dropped by 89.2%, to 8.127 billion. (Ukrainian…
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has said that the problem of wage arrears, in particular, requires modernization of the industry and increased coal production. “There is an issue of restructuring the industry as a whole. I don’t like how things are going on in the coal industry. The impression is that this is a closed…
Since the start of the year Chukotka has yielded 546.84 thousand tons of coal, up by 50% YoY. In three quarters Beringpromugol extracted 433.15 thousand tons of coal, with over 300 thousand tons exported to China, Taiwan, South Korea, Vietnam and Japan. This year the company intends to mine 600 thousand tons of coal, and…
Since the start of the year Kuzbass enterprises have mined 136.7 million tons of power-generating coal and 53.3 million tons of coking coal, up by 5.4% YoY. Mines yielded 67 million tons (65.1 million tons in January-September 2017), and pits – 123 million tons (115.1 million tons). In September 22.1 million tons of coal were…
Swiss coal trader Mercuria, a potential investor in a 24-billion ruble Lavna coal terminal in Murmansk, is unhappy with Russia’s State Transport Leasing Company’s (STLC) decision to work with a company of tycoon Andrei Bokarev, according to Mercuria’s letter to Transport Minister Yevgeny Ditrikh. Lavna with a projected annual capacity of 18 million tons is…
Power-generating coal output in Krasnoyarsk region in January-September grew by 26% YoY, to 780 thousand tons. Coal in the region is mined at the Sayano-Partizanskiy pit, an asset of SAFMAR. Taking into account favorable market situation, this year the pit could for the first time in its 15-year history reach the annual output of 1…
