Thursday, January 21, 2010

China Shenhua Coal Yield Tops 210 Mn Tonnes For 2009

China Shenhua Energy Co., Ltd. yielded 210 million tons of commodity coal in 2009, hiking 13.2% year on year, the Chinese energy titan announced today in a data report.

The company turned out 17.4 million tons of coal in December 2009, up 9.4% from a year ago. Moreover, it sold 254 million tons of coal in 2009, up 9.3%. And 22.4 million tons of it was sold in December alone, decreasing 5.9%.

Last year, Shenhua Energy's coal export dropped 35.8% to 13.6 million tons, due to coal demand decline globally. Its self-owned railway transport volume escalated 12.1% to 138.2 billion ton-kilometers; and seaborne coal transport volume jumped 14.2% to 159 million tons. Its seaborne coal transport volumes separately hit 21.7 million tons and 7.78 million tons in the Tianjin coal wharf and the port of Huanghua, down 5.2% and 0.5%, respectively.

Total power generation of the company increased 7.5% to 105.09 million kilowatt-hours last year; and power sales capacity climbed 8.2% to 97.72 million kilowatt-hours.

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