Railroad deliveries of limestone in January-May dropped by 8% YoY, to 4.5 million tons. At the same time, in May they grew by 3%, to 1.1 million tons, the largest result since the start of the year. In 5 months deliveries to Donetsk region increased from 30% to 40%. Deliveries to metal companies decreased by…
In January-May railroad deliveries of lime grew by 42% YoY, to 180 thousand tons. The first months of the year witnessed the growth of deliveries to metal companies, while chemical enterprises considerably decreased their purchases. The main consumers of lime were ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih (didn’t buy lime last year), Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Combine (+43%)…
Russian Copper Company investments in the development of its mining and metal capacities in Russia and Kazakhstan will exceed $1 billion in 2019, up by 4% YoY. More than $900 million will be invested in Russia, including $652 million in mining. The main investment projects this year will be the construction of the Tominsky Mining…
The annual shareholders meeting of Ferrexpo has approved record-high dividends for 2018 – $0.231 per share, up by 40% YoY ($0.165). Shareholders owing 99.73% of shares voted for the final dividends in the amount of $0.06 per share. The meeting also reviewed the company operational report for 2018, with 66.69% voting in favor of it,…
Russian aluminum giant RUSAL plans to finance its 2019 capex of $800-900 million with its own funds, CEO Yevgeny Nikitin declared. “Speaking about capital expenditures of the company in general, we forecast them at the level of the last year, I mean, about $800-900 million. Everything will be financed from our own money, we do…
The shareholders of the Russian metals giant Norilsk Nickel have approved paying 792.52 rubles per common share, or a total of 125.4 billion rubles, in dividends for 2018. The record date is June 21. The company earlier paid 776.02 rubles per common share, or a total of 122.8 billion rubles, in interim dividends for 2018.…
The Kharkiv territorial department of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine has fined Megametalgroup and Donremtechmash for 544 thousand UAH for the breach of the competition legislation by corrupting the results of four tenders held by the state enterprise Selidovugol. The committee has studied four tenders with the total expected cost of 209.77 million YAH. It…
