Ukraine in Arabic | Ukraine lacks 4 tons of coal
KYIV/Ukraine in Arabic/ Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Wednesday said that the results of the examination of the government until the end of 2014, the country will need about 4 million tons of coal.
"As for coal, the situation remains difficult, because, according to our assumptions, to the end of the current year, an additional need about 4 million tons of coal ", - said Yatsenyuk during the extended session of the government on the problems of the beginning of the heating season.
Earlier, on October 22, the first ship loaded with coal from South Africa passed through the Bosporus Strait and will arrive in Ukraine soon.
"As many as 84,000 tons of coal from South Africa passed through the Bosporus only today," he said at a government meeting on Wednesday.
As reported, Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Prodan said in September that Ukraine's state and private enterprises had signed agreements on the supply of 5.6 million tons of imported coal before the end of 2014.
"We have signed an agreement on coal supplies with South Africa - one million tons before the end of the year should be supplied. We, and other private enterprises, which today are working on the energy market (DTEK, Donbasenergo), signed agreements on the supply of coal from Russia. Unfortunately, this is a scarce grade of coal, which you can only find in Russia and certain countries. The total volume of coal supplies according to the agreements we have is 5.6 million tons before the end of the year. This coal will be enough for us to have more than 3.5 million tons of coal at thermal power plants on January 1, 2015," he said.
Later Ukrinterenergo said that the first vessel with coal from South Africa would dock in the Illichivsk sea commercial port (Odesa region) on October 16-20. Ukrinterenergo has contracted one million tons of coal of the anthracite group at Steel Mont Trading Ltd. and 250,000 tons of coal should arrive in Ukraine every month.