Faced with widespread power outages, the Group’s leaders continued to work with Quang Ninh Electricity to quickly restore power and requested underground and open-pit units to maintain generator systems and pumps to continuously drain mine water as well as ventilation; prepare conditions and occupational safety and hygiene so that when the power grid is available, production can be resumed immediately and production can be quickly stabilized after the storm.

According to reports from units under the Group, storm No. 3 caused very serious consequences, causing power outages from 10am on September 7, loss of communication or interruption, and traffic in some areas being paralyzed (the Vang Danh mine area lost power and communication completely, the road from Uong Bi to the mine was blocked by landslides, leaving only the road to Yen Tu to enter the mine which was quite far away).

The storm has blown off roofs of many factory and office buildings of construction sites and workshops; blown off coal tarpaulins; knocked down over 30 electric poles behind 6kV transformer stations of open-pit mining units, and damaged a number of power stations. The amount of water has increased in some underground mine areas; many green areas, many areas of trees for renovating and restoring waste dumps have been broken and fallen…

Faced with the complicated developments of storm No. 3, implementing the directive of the Prime Minister, the National Steering Committee, ministries, 11 sectors and Quang Ninh province on storm No. 3 prevention, on September 4, the Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention – Search and Rescue of TKV issued a dispatch on proactively and focusedly responding to storm No. 3 and heavy rain.

At the same time, the Group has established working groups to inspect the prevention and response to storm No. 3 at the units; assigned the Group’s leaders and staff of the specialized departments to be on duty 24/7 at the Production Control Center in Quang Ninh and TKV Headquarters at No. 3 Duong Dinh Nghe (Hanoi) on September 6, 7, and 8 to direct and respond to storm No. 3 as well as inspect and direct at the units.

On the morning of September 8, right after the storm passed, Party Secretary and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Group Ngo Hoang Ngan directed the inspection and overcoming of the consequences of storm No. 3 at the units and soon stabilized production…, General Director of the Group Dang Thanh Hai, Deputy General Director of the Group Phan Xuan Thuy, Deputy General Director of the Group Nguyen Huy Nam and the specialized Departments and the Group Office inspected and directed the work of overcoming the consequences of storm No. 3 at Vang Danh Coal Joint Stock Company, production units in Uong Bi – Dong Trieu, Ha Long and Cam Pha areas./.