KYIV, Sept 4 - A ship loaded with 62,000 tonnes of steam coal last week departed the port of the American city of Baltimore and should arrive in Yuzhny port in Ukraine by mid-September, Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States Valeriy Chaly has told the ZN.ua portal.

According to him, the relevant contract for the supply of coal was signed between the U.S. company XCoal Energy and Resources and Ukraine's state-owned Centrenergo on July 14 this year.