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"Queue from Hell”: Minister suspends coal transport to China

Old News! Published on: 2017.12.13

"Queue from Hell”: Minister suspends coal transport to China

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D.Sumyabazar, Mongolia’s Minister of Mining and Heavy Industries has made a decision to suspend coal transport from the coal mines in the Gobi. The minister has been visiting the Gashuun Sukhait border crossing where customs officials on both sides are having difficulty coping with the daily 130 kilometer-long queue of coal trucks bound for China. He has been on the scene for 15 days investigating the situation with a ministerial working group.

Three companies, ‘Erdenes Tavan Tolgoi’, ‘Energy Resources’ and ‘Tavan Tolgoi’  transport coal from their South Gobi mines to China via the Gashuun Sukhait crossing each day. More than 6000 frustrated drivers wait long hours in the daily queue to enter the border crossing zone; this has become particularly dangerous with the onset of winter in Mongolia – in the Gobi, temperatures often fall to below -40 deg C.  So, from 1.00 a.m. today Minister Sumyabazar ordered the coal transportation route to be changed and completely suspended shipments via Gashuun Sukhait.

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