According to the data issued by the Ukrainian association of metal producers Metallurgprom, in H1 this year the country's imports of
coking coal went up by 44 percent year on year to about 4.8 million mt, with 875,000 mt imported in June.
Meanwhile, in the first six months of this year
Ukraine's coke and chemicals plants received about 9.4 million mt of domestic-origin
coking coal - up four percent year on year, with 1.4 million received in June.
Metallurgprom has forecast that
coking coal imports in 2010 will amount to 8-8.5 million mt.