The coal seaport of Shakhtersk, one of the key assets of VGK, shipped 8.3 million tonnes of coal in 9 months of 2020, which is 1.4 million tonnes or 20.7% more than in the same period in 2019. Traditionally, the main consumers for the purchase of coal in the 3rd quarter of 2020 are China, South Korea and India. According to the results of the 3rd quarter of 2020, the Solntsevsky coal mine increased the volume of coal production by 19.4% compared to the same period last year. The production indicator was over 8 million tonnes. During the same period last year, 6.8 million tonnes were produced.

The volume of stripping work at the Solntsevsky coal mine increased by 36.6%: in the first 9 months of 2020, 75.5 million cubic meters of rock mass was moved. A year earlier this figure was over 55 million tonnes.