Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered to provide additional quotas for the export of coal from three regions in the direction of the Far Eastern ports, having guaranteed access abroad to the domestic fuel mined in them, writes RBC.
Head of State put the Roscherk “I agree” on the letter of his assistant, the former Transport Minister Igor Levitin. With a similar initiative in December, the first deputy prime minister Andrei Belousov was performed.
Proposal approved by Putin relates to Khakassia, Buryatia and Tuva, exports from which last year decreased almost twice. Now the additional quota for the removal of total 18 million tons of coal per year will be enshrined: nine million tons from Buryatia, 8.6 million from Khakassia and 0.4 million from Tuva.
Coal in these volumes will be exported by rail (on the Trans-Siberian and Baikal Amur Mains) in the direction of the ports of the Far East, from which it will be exported. Thus, the three regions will be guaranteed to restore exports of 2018-2020.
The problem arose due to last year’s sharp increase in the volume of coal export from Yakutia, mainly from the Elginsky field belonging to the company “A-Protherti”. In the conditions of limited bandwidth of railway highways, the export of coal from other regions had to shorten.
The main victims of the publication calls the SUEK company operating in Buryatia and Khakassia, and Colestar, developing a field in Khakassia. Their cumulative losses last year are estimated at billion dollars of missed revenue.