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Challenges facing Ukraine's metallurgical coal industry
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Report summary
In early-2013, metallurgical coal and coke import quotas were proposed by the Ukrainian government, in a deliberate attempt to shore up the domestic mining industry and offer relief to local producers. The Ukrainian mining industry has long suffered from low productivity, high costs, mass inefficiencies, a poor safety record and, crucially, poor qualities, resulting in higher feed-costs than most into the steel sector, and a reliance on subsidies. As a result, Ukrainian steelmakers have...
Table of contents
- Executive Summary
- Metallurgical import quotas introduced for 2013, albeit watered down
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Can Ukraine’s demand growth aspirations be realized with stronger quotas in place?
- Total reserves - poor quality and at great depth
- Production - declining sharply for coking coal
- Costs - uncompetitive globally, low productivity is the major driver
- Future projects - limited to one project
Tables and charts
This report includes 5 images and tables including:
- Domestic metallurgical demand reliant on imports
- while domestic coke demand has languished
- Ukraine: Crude Steel Production and Hot Metal Demand Growth (Mt)
- Marketable coal production in the Ukraine: thermal expansion as metallurgical coal has waned
- Marketable coking coal production (excl. PCI) in Ukraine, million tonnes (Mt)
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