Coal inventory at 6.1m tons

Till the end of April, the country’s coal inventory continued to increase to about 6.1 million tons, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT), of which, dust coal inventory was 3.6 million tons. Also according to the ministry, coal consumption in Jan-Apr was estimated at 13.8 million tons, of which, domestic consumption was [...]

Coal shortages hobble cement factories

Viet Nam Cement Industry Corporation (Vicem)’s member companies need more coal to produce cement, said officials from the corporation. Le Van Chung, chairman of the corporation’s management board, said cement factories at the corporation’s member companies needed 5,000 tonnes of coal a day for production, but the Viet Nam Coal and Mineral Industry Group provided [...]

Vietnam to import up to 15 mln tons coal/yr by 2015

Vietnam will need to import 3 million to 15 million tons of coal a year by 2015, rising to 21 million to 40 million annually by 2020, as new coal-fired power plants are built, Tran Xuan Hoa, chief executive of state mining firm Vinacomin said. Vietnam will need to import 3 million to 15 million [...]

Vietnam Uses 21.6M Tons of Coal in H1

Vietnam consumed 21.6 million tons of coal in the first half of this year, the Ministry of Industry and Trade said. During the six-month period, the country produced 22 million tons of coal, a rise of 5.4% from a year earlier, and had 5.3 million tons in stock. The state-owned Vietnam National Coal-Mineral Industries Group [...]

Australian firm signs deal to export coal to Viet Nam

Australia’s Environmental Clean Technologies (ETC) has signed a multi-million dollar trade and investment deal with Viet Nam’s Thang Long Investment and Commercial Joint Stock Company (TinCom) to export processed brown coal to Viet Nam. According to the Melbourne-based technology company, the deal enables ECT and TinCom, through their joint venture company Victoria Coldry Pty Ltd [...]

Coal output up but sales lag

The Viet Nam National Coal and Mineral Industries Group (Vinacomin) churned out 25.8 million tonnes of unprocessed coal in the first half of this year, up 15 per cent on last year’s figure. The group also reported sales of 21.7 million tonnes of processed coal, an increase of 1 per cent against the same period [...]

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