Singareni Collieries Company has witnessed robust performance during the first nine months of 2017-18 with coal shipments going up by 9 per cent to 46.7 million tonnes (mt), from 42.7 mt during the corresponding period last year. The state-owned mining company, which serves as a backbone for several power plants in the region, expects to sustain the growth numbers during the fourth quarter of the current financial year. As against the targeted shipment of 46.1 mt during the first nine months of this fiscal, Singareni Collieries managed to achieve 46.7 million tonnes.
The company aims to produce 2.1 lakh tonnes of coal per day over the next three months and sustain the output and despatch trends.