In January-March Raspadskaya increased coal concentrate sales by 4% QoQ and by 11% YoY, to 1.696 million tons.
The sales structure returned to its usual level (40% local sales and 60% exports) on the background of local market sales drop to 678 thousand tons.
Local sales decreased by 9% because a part of Russian metal companies increased the consumption of their own raw materials.
In Q1 Raspadskaya mined 2.9 million tons of coal, down by 10% QoQ and up by 28% YoY. (Ukrainian metal)