The project envisages modernization of Shargunkumir, which will allow to increase production of coal up to 900,000 a year.

On 7 September 2017, a consortium of Chinese companies comprising China Railway Tunnel Group and China Coal Technology & Engineering Group Corp. began the main preparatory work in the framework of the large-scale investment project “Modernization of Shargunkumir”.

Total cost of the project is US$94.5 million. The project is planned to be completed in the first quarter of 2020.

One of the significant factors of this project is the condition for the completion and delivery of the facility on a turnkey basis.