In June Russia exported 3.3 thousand tons of copper wire rod, down by 80% MoM and by 43.5% YoY. Deliveries to Kuwait dropped by 95%, to 439 tons, to Egypt – by 97%, to 60 tons, but to Belarus grew by 5%, to a third of the total volume. In 6 months copper wire rod…
In June Russia exported 33.6 thousand tons of refined copper, down by 8.9% MoM, but up by 1.2% YoY. Deliveries to Germany and China decreased the most MoM – by 79% and by 54% respectively. In H1 Russia exported 340 thousand tons of copper, up by 5.8% YoY. In monetary terms since the start of…
In June Russia imported 35 thousand tons of copper ore and concentrate, up by 73.6% MoM and by 22.6% YoY. In H1 imports totaled 208 thousand tons, down by 31.1% YoY. In June Peru supplied 23.6 thousand tons of copper ore, while imports from Kazakhstan remained unchanged at 11 thousand tons. In monetary terms since…
In May Russia exported 175 tons of flat rolled copper, down by 34% MoM and by 33.6% YoY. Belarus accounted for a half of all exports, and Ukraine – for one quarter, down by 15% and by 55% Mom respectively. In 5 months exports totaled 1.1 thousand tons, down by 10.9% YoY. Since the start…
In May Russia imported 3.6 thousand tons of copper scrap and waste, down by 13.4% MoM, but up by 17.9% YoY. In 5 months imports totaled 15.5 thousand tons, up by 45.1% YoY. The main suppliers were Germany (958 tons, up by 40% MoM) and Kyrgyzstan (664 tons, down 2-fold). In monetary terms since the…
In May Russia exported 357.2 tons of long rolled copper products, down by 22% MoM, but up by 0.5% YoY. In 5 months exports totaled 2.1 thousand tons, up by 2.9% YoY. The main importer was Belarus, accounting for 40%, followed by Germany (16.6%). In monetary terms exports since the start of the year have…
In May Russia imported 113.9 tons of raw copper, up by 100.9% MoM and by 0.1% YoY. In 5 months imports dropped by 58% YoY, to 622.6 tons. Since the start of the year in monetary terms imports have decreased by 53.9%. In May import prices dropped by 10.7%, to $14.1 per kg. (Ukrainian metal)
After the processing works at the Tekhutskoye deposit resumes operation, Tekhut plans to increase employee number to 1 thousand people. According to some sources, the deposit, pledged to the Bank VTB earlier this year, which has invested $380 million in it, has been transferred to the management of the Russian Copper Company. The program to…