Ukraine: DSS changes supervisory board
The shareholders of Dneprospetsstal have replaced the supervisory board.
The shareholders of Dneprospetsstal have replaced the supervisory board.
ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih has stopped using natural gas at two of its blast furnaces (##6 and 7) by switching to gasless charge, and thus decreasing the prime cost of pig iron.
The Security Service of Ukraine has found the facts of polluting over 3 hectares of agricultural lands in Ternopil region with mining wastes.
Ukrzaliznytsia says it’s willing to provide additional cargo trains for Metinvest.
In January-March Ukraine mined 10 million tons of coal, up by 6.4% YoY.
According to the Ministry of energy and coal industry, in March coal output totaled 3.4 million tons. (Ukrainian metal)
DTEK Ternovskoye Mine Group was the second among other DTEK mine groups to yield 1 million tons of coal since the beginning of the year.
In January-March ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih produced 1.34 million tons of rolled metal, up by 1.3% YoY.
In March Ukrainian metal makers produced 2.2 million tons of steel, up by 30% YoY and 12% MoM. That is the highest result since July 2014 when the escalation of the military activity in Donbass dropped steel output by 28% MoM.
In January-March Alchevsk Iron and Steel Works produced 432 thousand tons of rolled metal, 474 thousand tons of steel and 464 thousand tons of pig iron. In January-March 2015 the works was idle.
In March Zaporozhogneupor increased refractory materials output.
The police have started investigating the decision of the Ministry of economical development and trade to register scrap export operations.
The Verkhovnaya Rada industrial policy and entrepreneurship committee chairman Victor Galasyuk wants to discuss the actions of Ukrzaliznytsia in giving preferences in transportation to manufacturers from other countries and not providing such privileges to local ones.
Buzhanskaya miners have addressed the President of Ukraine, the minister of energy, people’s deputies and local authorities telling them of the illegal actions of the new acting CEO of Volynugol Valentin Kiselev.
The Commercial Court of Cherkassy region has initiated a case of the Trading House “Ukrainian Mining Company” bankruptcy.