In January-February the throughput of Russian seaports grew by 4.4% YoY, to 121.7 million tons. According to the Association of sea trade ports, in particular, the throughput of coal increased to 22.4 million tons, or by 7.5%, while that of ferrous metals – by 14.3%, to 5.1 million tons. (Ukrainian metal)
Belarus and Sudan are considering gold mining in the African country, Head of the Belarus President Property Management Directorate Viktor Sheiman said. “We are considering gold mining in Sudan, supplying our machinery, and setting up joint companies, including agricultural ones,” Viktor Sheiman noted. (BelTA/Ukrainian metal)
The state enterprise Selidovugol has concluded an agreement with Donenergoexport LLC for the delivery of spare parts for belt conveyers valued at 22.19 million UAH. The agreement provides for the payment of the goods ordered within 90 calendar days upon receipt. The spare parts are ordered for the 1/3 Novgorodovskaya, Kotlyarevskaya, Ukraina and Kurakhovskaya mines.…
In 2017 Ukraine exported 1.3 million tons of pig iron and 200 thousand tons of rolled metal to US. “Rolled metal accounted just for 1.3% of all Ukrainian metal exports. On the other hand, this is a perspective market, and our exports could have grown. So this is a bad news for us”, Ukrmetallurgprom president…
Sergey Belenky, chairman of the Federation of Metallurgists of Ukraine, believes that the US antidumping duties of 25% will hit Interpipe the most. “In 2017 Interpipe accounted for 19% of pipe exports to US. Other market participants will experience much lower risks”, he said. According to him, last year Ukraine also supplied 49 thousand tons…
Evraz ZSMK has produced a trial batch of rails of the new category – DT400 IK. The rails can be used under the most sever conditions. Previously such rails were not produced in Russia. After all the certification documents are received, a batch of rails will be sent for tests. (Ukrainian metal)
The Economic Development and Trade Ministry of Ukraine is disappointed by a decision of the European Commission (EC) to reject price commitments proposed by Metinvest Group and other hot-rolled steel exporters in exchange for non-applying the previously introduced anti-dumping duties to them. “We are very disappointed by this decision of Europe, especially in the context…
In January-February Chukotka Autonomous District mined 135.7 thousand tons of coal, up by 10% YoY. The increase in output has to do with the growth of coalmining at Beringpromugol LLC. In 2 months the company shipped 95.3 thousand tons of coal, up 1.5-fold YoY. Shakhta Ugolnaya also mines for coal in the region. Its output…
