In January-October Ukrainian by-product coke plants imported 9.8 million tons of ordinary coking coals and coal concentrate, up by 20% YoY, or by 1.6 million tons. In October Ukraine imported 920 thousand tons of coal, down by 140 thousand tons MoM. Ukrainian coal deliveries to by-product coke plants reached 5 million tons, on the level…
The Russian Railroads wants to increase coal transportation tariff next year due to the high increase of its price in the last three months. The company reported this at the meeting with the Transport Vice Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich. Coal started to grow in price in August, since then the coking coal price almost tripled,…
Salary debts at state mines have exceeded 800 million UAH. According to the Independent Miners Union of Ukraine chairman Mikhail Volynets, the unions demand 4.6 billion UAH in the 2017 budget to support the state coal sector, which will at any rate allow paying wages in time. But this money will not be enough to…
Shareholders of Dniepropetrovsk Iron and Steel Works named after Komintern (Kominmet) have dismissed the board, having chosen Petr Kozak the general manager for a year. They have revoked all the members of the board, including the chairman Oleg Botyuk. The supervisory board and revision commission members have also been dismissed, including Alexander Butskikh (owns 19.7787%…
In January-September Russia exported 2.3 thousand tons of stainless steel rods valued at $7 million, up 1.6 times and by 28.4% YoY respectively. Nickel content in steel doesn’t exceed 2.5%. Some 48% of the products were exported to Ukraine, up 2 times, at $3422 per ton. Belarus imported 20% of the products, up by 0.7%…
In January-September Russia produced 214.12 tons of gold, down by 1.4% YoY. Silver output totaled 800.32 tons, down by 9.4% YoY.
In January-October Russia produced 57.7 million tons of steel and 49.8 million tons of ferrous rolled metal, down by 0.9% and 1.5% YoY respectively. According to the Federal Service of State Statistics, in October steel output went up by 2% YoY and by 4.1% MoM. Rolled metal output increased by 0.3% YoY and by 1.3%…
In January-September Ukrainian market received 3 million tons of rolled metal (without pipes), up by 20.8% YoY. With pipes deliveries total 3.33 million tons. In the reporting period Ukraine imported 0.48 million tons of metal, or 16.1% as opposed to 13.6% in January-September 2015. The growth trends over January-September have been observed in beams (up…