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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Shandong to expand emergency coal storage

Wednesday, 28 Sep 2011

East China Shandong province is working to improve emergency storage capacity for coal to secure supplies to local users.

According to Shandong Coal Industry Bureau the province plans to boost its coal emergency storage capacity to over 3 million tonnes in 2011 and construction of some storage bases are going on smoothly.

The Luxi emergency storage base which has officially started construction recently is designed to reach storing capacity of 1 million tonnes and turnover capacity of 20 million tonnes per annum. With construction area of 14760 square kilometres the base is expected to complete in three years. And, the first phase of Longkou base had finished construction, with storing capacity reaching 2 million tonnes.

Additionally, construction of Zhucheng, Laiwu and Qihe bases are accelerating and planning for Rizhao and Heze bases are underway.

(sourced from SXCoal)

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