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Tajikistan's coal exports significantly increase – minister

BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 25. Tajikistan significantly increased the volume of coal exports in the first half of 2022, said Minister of Industry and New Technologies of Tajikistan Sherali Kabir, Trend reports via asiaplustj.info.

"Tajikistan's coal exports from January through June 2022 amounted to 279,000 tons, which is a fifteenfold increase compared to the corresponding period of 2022 (19 000 tons)," Kabir said.

The main coal importing countries from Tajikistan in the reporting period were Afghanistan (183 711 tons) and Pakistan (93 099 tons).