The UK authorities may use the country’s navy to escort coal deliveries to the blast furnaces of the steel company British Steel, the Times newspaper reports, citing a senior source.
“Ministers may send the navy to escort fuel deliveries to the blast furnaces of Scuntrop,” the newspaper writes.
The source told the newspaper that such a measure is being considered so that ships delivering coal to the UK are not intercepted or diverted. Without new fuel supplies, the furnaces may stop and it will be almost impossible to restart them.
Earlier, the British parliament approved an urgent bill aimed at continuing the work of the largest steel plant of the British Steel in the UK, which is threatened with closure amid financial difficulties.