Ha Long Coal One Member Limited Company – Vinacomin, whose precursor was Quang Ninh Coal Association, was established on January 8th 1988 under Decision 07 QD/UB dated January 8th, 1988 by Quang Ninh Provincial People’s Committee. During its foundation and development, the enterprise has always promoted the tradition of “discipline and unanimity”, overcoming difficulties in each period to increase productivity and ensure lives of the staff.
The year 2011 saw Ha Long Coal Company ranked as one of the coal manufacturing units of the Group facing the most difficulties. The primary reason was due to its features, most of its units and businesses are located separately and face resource exhaustion. The target of the company this year was not only to stabilize production at the end of previous investment period, but also under any circumstance boost the progress of projects investing in new mine construction. Thus, the Company’s heads have taken flexible and drastic measures in management and production. Given the efforts of all the staff and determination to overcome obstacles, beat targets of 2011 and ensure jobs and income for labourers, Ha Long Coal One Member Limited Company – Vinacomin has basically met progress goals assigned by the Group. During the year, the Company has provided regular work for employees.
In 2011, the company had crude coal production of 1,887 thousand tonnes, turnover of VND 1,546 billion and paid average monthly salary to employees of over VND 8.2 million. Especially, labour safety activities are a top priority for the company’s production and business. Therefore, since the beginning, the Company has planned and comprehensively implemented labour safety and industrial sanitation activities. The company held training courses for team leaders, shift officers, vice foremen, foremen, staff and deputy managers of technical units to improve management capacity, administration skills and production coordination at all levels.
Investment value in 2011 was VND 323,793 million, 77 percent of the plan. Among those, construction accounted for VND 150,072 million, 75 percent of the plan, equipment accounted for VND 133,310 million, 80.3 percent of the plan, other primary construction accounted for VND 40,411 million, 72.4 percent of the plan. New equipment has been put into effective use, such as transporters for coal, stone and earth inside and outside ovens, conveyor belt, substation, submersible pump, sieve and coal e-scaling station, supporting winch, dust collector at loading points of conveyor belt and sieve; oven lines of primary construction, shift house, console house in the Company’s workshops.
For the coming year 2012, Ha Long Coal Company targets to actively implement big projects such as the project exploiting coal in Ha Rang Mine at level +50/-100, with designed productivity of 600,000 tonnes per year, which will be met in 2013; and the project constructing Bac Coc Sau coal mine (Tan Lap) which will exploit +17/-100, with designed productivity of 700,000 tonnes per year which will be met in 2012. Concern will be given to construction and the procurement of equipment supporting the transport, health care, and other needs of workers. The company makes efforts to reach planned investment and primary construction in 2012 of VND 813,279 million, in which construction is VND 487,511 million, equipment value is VND 255,968 million, other primary construction is VND 69,800 million.