In January the Far Eastern Railroad transported 1.5 million tons of coal, down by 12% YoY. Last year coal transportation dropped by 5.5%, to 17.8 million tons. At the same time iron ore concentrate transportation grew by 88.9%, to 60 thousand tons. In the whole 2018, 664 thousand tons of concentrate were transported, up by…
In January Ukraine exported $234.668 million worth of iron ore, down by 2.4% YoY. Imports dropped by 0.4%, to $0.002 million. According to the State Fiscal Service, in January exports decreased by 6.4% MoM, and imports – by 84.6%. China was the largest importer of iron ore ($43.264 million). In 2018 Ukraine exported $2.869 billion…
In January Ukraine exported $234.6 million worth of iron ore and concentrate, down by 2.44% YoY. Volume-wise exports dropped by 0.28%, to 3.152 million. According to the State Fiscal Service, iron ore raw materials accounted for 5.77% of all exports. China, Poland and the Czech Republic purchased almost half of all ore. The share of…
In 2018 the Sokolovsko-Sarbaiskoye Mining and manufacturing Enterprise, a part of ERG, increased iron ore raw materials (pellets and concentrate) output by 19% YoY, to 12.5 million tons. In particular, the enterprise produced 8 million tons of concentrate and 4.5 million tons of pellets, up from 6.6 million tons and 3.9 million tons respectively. (Ukrainian…
In 2018 Ukraine exported 36.91 million tons of iron ore and iron ore concentrate valued at $2.869 billion, down by 1.3%, but up by 10.6% YoY respectively. According to the State Fiscal Service, the share of the iron ore in the overall exports was 6.06%. Almost half of volumes was sold to China, Poland and…
In 2018 Ukrzaliznytsia transported over 273 thousand cargo cars with iron ore raw materials to the western border of Ukraine, up by 3% YoY. According to the acting chairman of Ukrzaliznytsia Yevgeniy Kravtsov, transportation volumes depend not only on the availability of the rolling stock, but also on the operation of all parties of the…
In January-November Kazakhstan mined 265.4 billion tenge worth of iron ore, up by 18.4% YoY. Kostanay region accounted for 87% (231.3 billion tenge), up by 16.8% YoY. Karaganda region comes second with 10.5% (27.7 billion tenge), up by 20.3%, followed by Akmola region with 1.2% (3.2 billion tenge), up by 28%. Kazakhstan holds the second…
In November ore transportation via railroad grew by 7.4% YoY, to 10.1 million tons, having set a record for the month. In January-November railroad transported 106.4 million tons of ore, up by 5.7% YoY. Local transportation grew by 5%, while exports by 10%. The main export markets were Germany and Slovakia (up 2.5-fold), as well…
