The decision is taken in the course of Belon`s overhaul of marketing strategy, the company PR relates quoting Vitaliy Bakhmetyev (Belon, CEO).
The marketing innovations include cutting costs by selling non-core assets, cutting operational costs and increasing the output through investments.
As earlier communicated, in 2009, Belon increased production by 7 per cent (against 2008) up to 5.91 m t, including 3.448 m t (+19.3 per cent) of coking coal, steam coal output decreasing down to 2.469 m t (against 2.643 in 2008).
The company plans to extract 8.21 m t of coal, 5.11 m t of coking coal included, in 2010. Its investment program stipulates growth of coal production up to 9.79 m t (including 6.79 m t of coking grades) annually by 2013.