{"id":32293,"date":"2025-02-06T19:25:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T16:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/?p=32293"},"modified":"2025-02-07T14:40:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T11:40:05","slug":"steel-sector-abroad-loss-donbas-coal-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/steel-sector-abroad-loss-donbas-coal-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s steel sector looks abroad after loss of critical Donbas coal mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine\u2019s steel producers are now looking abroad to stay alive after the closure of the country&#8217;s last operating coking coal mine in Pokrovsk last month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Without the mine in Pokrovsk, Ukraine needs to find a replacement to plug a nearly 3 million ton deficit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Coke production facilities are also required to extract the coke from coking coal but many have been damaged or occupied, like in Avdiivka, said Volodymyr Landa, a senior economist at the Center for Economic Strategy (CES). There are five remaining facilities in Ukraine\u2019s east, but not all are in good shape and have old machinery, like the Zaporizhzhia plant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A balance of imports of both coke and coking coal is the only option to keep Ukraine\u2019s steel facilities operational. Up until 2022, Russia was Ukraine\u2019s largest coke source. Unsurprisingly, that has changed in recent years and Poland made up 85% of Ukraine\u2019s coke imports in 2024. Poland also provides some coking coal, although the majority comes overseas from the U.S. and Australia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/what-the-loss-of-a-critical-donbas-coal-mine-means-for-ukraines-war-torn-steel-sectorukraines-steel-sector-looks-abroad-after-loss-of-critical-donbas-coal-mine\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyiv Independent.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>Other news from CES experts via <\/i><a href=\"\/?cat_ID=187\"><i>the link<\/i><\/a><i>.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine\u2019s steel producers are now looking abroad to stay alive after the closure of the country&#8217;s last operating coking coal mine in Pokrovsk last month. Without the mine in Pokrovsk, Ukraine needs to find a replacement to plug a nearly 3 million ton deficit. Coke production facilities are also required to extract the coke from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"experts":[513],"news_type":[139],"class_list":["post-32293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-experts-in-the-media-en","experts-volodymyr-landa","news_type-we-are-in-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32319,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32293\/revisions\/32319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32293"},{"taxonomy":"experts","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/experts?post=32293"},{"taxonomy":"news_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_type?post=32293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}