REUTERS
Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Kistion has said that three ships with A-grade energy coal will arrive in Ukraine on September 8-12.
"We have the peak of supply of an A-grade energy coal on September 8-12, i.e. at least three ships will arrive in the Yuzhny sea port," Kistion said at a government meeting on Wednesday.
According to the official, 1.9 million tonnes of coal has been accumulated in heat generation companies' warehouses to date, which is twice as much as at the same period last year.
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