Air cargo the area surrounding the city and thus land access. As this access was closed, in the so-called Berlin blockade, an airlift remained the only option to get increasingly urgent deliveries of food, coal, and other supplies to West Berlin. Over 330 days to 12 May 1949 a total of 2.26 million tons of cargo were airlifted to Berlin, an average of 6,800 tons a day, 80% by the US and 20% by the UK. Although freight traffic developed modestly, reaching only 800,000 tonnes worldwide by the mid-1950s, the world economy was hitting its post-war stride. Germany and Japan were emerging
Coal Company Zarechnaya coal extracted in mine Zarechnaya. The plant was originally built with a production capacity of 2.4 million tons of coal a year. After the modernization in 2008, which was held without cessation of the enrichment process, the efficiency of the complex reached 5 million tons of coal a year. In 2011 the production capacity was increased up to 6 million tons. The plant processes the coal of the mines Zarechnaya and Oktyabrskaya as well as of the third parties. Mine Oktyabrskaya (ex-Polysaevskaya-2) was put into operation in 1956 with estimated capacity of 1.2 million tons per year. In 2010 Oktyabrskaya