OREANDA-NEWS. April 04, 2008. Ukraine increased coal production in January-March by 2,5 percent (by 491,498 thousand tons) against the same period of 2007 - to 20,1,234 million tons, press service of the Coal Industry Ministry reported.

Coking coal production went up by 2,9 percent (by 208,926 thousand tons) to 7,53,825 million tons over three month of 2008, while steam coal production surged by 5,7 percent (by 700,424 thousand tons) to 12,947,409 million tons.