The supervisory board of Dneprovsky By-Product Coke Plant has fired Pavel Rafalskiy from the office of the general manager of the company, appointing Yevgeniy Didus, the CEO of the Inkor and Co, a part of Metinvest, instead. The decision was taken on April 2. The office of Rafalskiy expired on April 2, while Didus was…
The Eurasian Economic Commission has extended the antidumping duty on cold-deformed seamless stainless pipes supplied to the territory of the Union from China and Malaysia. The duty has been prolonged for the duration of another investigation – through January 18, 2019. The volume of the duty is 19.15% of the customs cost. (Ukrainian metal)
The prices of the main precious metals vary in Azerbaijan, according to the data published by the Central Bank. The cost of gold increased by 15,079 manats, to 2275,416 manats per troy ounce compared to the price on April 2. The cost of silver increased by 0.2318 manats, to 28.1628 manats per ounce. The cost…
Rosterminalugol JSC, the largest dedicated coal port in the European part of Russia, handled 5.02 million tons of coal in January-March, up by 2.4% YoY. Amid challenging ice conditions the terminal handled 71 vessels with average daily handling totaling 70,700 tons (up by 13.7%). In the first quarter of the year, coal unloading at the…
Export of Russian coal in January-March increased by 6.8% YoY, to 44.42 million tons, the Ministry of Energy said. In March coal exports from Russia totaled 15.638 million tons. (PortNews/Ukrainian metal)
Kamensk-Uralsky Iron and Steel Works is commissioning the second stage of the rolling complex. The commissioning is carried out according to the schedule. The project will provide the manufacture of qualitatively new semi-finished products and increase the share of Russian wares of aluminum-lithium alloys in the total volume of supplies both to major local and…
The working group of the Zaporozhye region state administration has carried out checks of the local companies dealing with metal processing, as well as their collection centers and manufacturing sites. 13 enterprises were checked. Of them only one – Razvitiye-SV – corresponded to all the legislation norms. The Khormet company will be checked again. At…
In March railroad cargo transportation increased by 3.1% YoY, to 112.4 million tons. In Q1 transportation grew by 3.5%, to 315.7 million tons. In particular, in three months railroads carried 94.3 million tons of coal, up by 3.6% YoY, 27.2 million tons of iron and manganese ore (+2.5%), 19.8 million tons of ferrous metals (+10.8%),…