This year output reduction at the state-owned mines accounting for 53 per cent of national coal production may reach 6.3 per cent (36 m t) against 2009, Yuriy Yashchenko (Ukraine, Minister of Coal industry) informs.
Ukrainian coal enterprises have already cut their production by 1 per cent in Jan–Feb 2010 (against the same months of 2009) down to 11.711 m t.