The first shipment of coal from South Africa arrived to Ukraine, said the Commissioner " Illichivsk commercial sea port " Stanislav Nezavitin.
" Vessel (Scotian Express) arrived as expected, today (Thursday - approx. OPINION) night, " said Nezavitin, reports TASS. The beauty of the Dutch ship Scotian Express 84 thousand tons of coal from South Africa. Just before the end of the year Ukraine is required to be delivered 1 million tons of coal, monthly 250 thousand Tons. Before the Minister of energy and coal industry Yuriy Prodan said that Ukraine does not have enough coal to produce 30% of electricity. He also said that the Ukrainian private organizations intend to buy before the end of 2014, about 4 million tons of coal from Russia. His Ukrainian coal power plants will only last until November, said first independent trade Union of miners of the country. According to him, at the beginning of September in warehouses TPP were 1, 7 million tons of coal. In the last month of summer Authorised the Ministry of energy of Ukraine told that because of fighting in the Donbass country has for the first time over a long period to start to import steam coal for power plants, adding that delivery shall be effected from Australia, New Zealand and maybe USA. We emphasize that stop mining coal in the Donbass threatens Ukraine's energy disaster. According to the envoy Institute for economic research and policy consulting Dmytro Naumenko, Ukraine cheaper to import coal from South Africa, rather than to apply their own "." Ukrainian coal is very expensive, the coal industry is subsidized, for this reason it is cheaper to import from South Africa and America, where the cost of fuel is very low. Us such projects profitable, " said Naumenko. Against this background, the government of Ukraine signed an agreement with South Africa for the production and delivery estimated 1 million tons of coal.

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