New dredger in Kolubara, 77 million euros value

Mine basin, “Kolubara”, has released into work a new dredger, worth 77 million euros, for excavation of coal and removal of bad materials at the excavation site “Tamnava – west field”.

The dredger was constructed by a German company “Takraf” and ABB, in cooperation with domestic companies – “Kolubara metal” from Lazarevac, “Gosa” from Smederevska Palanka and “Prim” from Kostolac.

State Secretary of the Ministry of energetics and mining of Serbia, Radosav Jovanovic, said that the new dredger marked continuation of cooperation with foreign companies, but also it began moving of production in the electrical-metal system of Serbia.

The new dredger will be on a test trial by March, 25th, and afterwards it will ve used for regular excavation of bad materials and coal until the beginning of August, when new transporter and layering machines will be used, which will make the complete new BTO system on power at the excavation site “Tamnava-west field”.

The project of investments for expanding this site will double up the production of coal to 12 million tones a year, and it was started after closure of the eastern field. Purchase of new equipment is finaced by European bank for renovation and development (EBRD) and German KfW bank, and the same was installed in the end of 2007.

At the same mounting plot “Tamnava-west field”, the new dredger which German manufacturers delivered in the beginning of the ‘90s of the last century, had begun to be installed, but shortly afterwards, the mounting was interrupted. The dredger is a part of the new BTO system at the western field of Tamnava, for which there will also be purchased a large rotative dredger, transportation tracks (with 5 power stations), of 7,5 km of longitude and all necessary equipment.

At the mounting plot in Barosevac, in December of 2007, a rotative dredger, once used in the German mine Vatenfal, had been revitalized and released in work, replacing the “big ten”, a dredger broken in a damage in the end of 2005 in Medosevac, which hadn’t been repaired by now as it would take months to do so.

Germany has invested so far 500 million euros in Serbia, out of which 280 million euros into energy sector.