Ukraine Q1 Coal Output Drops 7.1% on Year to 7.765 Million MT
April 16, 2019 - Ukrainian coal output in the first quarter of the year fell 7.1% year on year to 7.765 million mt, the energy and coal industry ministry said Tuesday.
In March Ukraine produced 2.664 million mt of coal, down 11.9% year on year, the ministry said.
Thermal coal production fell 3.1% to 6.537 million mt in the first quarter, while coking coal output dropped 24% to 1.227 million mt.
Coal output in the government-controlled parts of the Donetsk region in the first quarter fell 14% to 2.524 million mt, while production in the Luhansk region dropped 23.7% to 111,700 mt.
In other regions, coal output in Dnipropetrovsk fell 2% to 4.74 million mt, in Lviv it dropped 8.6% to 374,300 mt and production in Volyn plunged 52.2% to 14,300 mt.
State-owned mines produced 955,500 mt of coal in the quarter, down 19.4% year on year.
Ukraine imported 5.25 million mt of thermal coal and anthracite worth $740 million in the quarter, down 8.5% year on year, according to the state fiscal service.
Ukraine received 64.4% of the total coal imports from Russia, 28.7% from the US and 4.2% from Kazakhstan, according to the fiscal service.
Ukraine produced 33.29 million mt of coal in 2018, down 4.7% from 2017.