In January RZD transported 100.2 million tons of cargo, down by 4.9% YoY. In particular, 10.1 million tons of iron and manganese ore were transported, up by 2%. Transportation of ferrous metals decreased by 2.2%, to 6.4 million tons, while of scrap grew by 12.6%, to 0.663 million tons. Last year ferrous metals transportation totaled…
In 2019 average wages in metal industry grew by 14% YoY, to 14,242 UAH. According to the State Statistics Service, in December 2019 salary increased by 5.8% MoM, after falling by 2.9% in November 2019. The salary growth began in spring 2019, when Metinvest and ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih started increasing wages. Since February 2019 average…
In 2019 Sverdlovsk Railroad transported 314 thousand TEU containers, up by 21.3% YoY. In particular, transportation of ferrous metals grew the most – by 24.5%, to 13.9 thousand containers. The railroad also transported 198 thousand containers with non-ferrous metals, up by 1.9%, 6.4 thousand containers with refractory materials, up by 8.5%, and 5.9 thousand containers…
The government must pay attention to low consumption of metal products in Ukraine, Metinvest CEO Yuri Ryzhenkov declared. According to him, in Ukraine steel consumption per capita is one of the lowest. In particular, it’s much lower than in neighboring Poland and Russia. “The government should think on how to improve the domestic demand for…
In 2019 Zabaikalye railroad transported 209.1 thousand tons of TEU containers, up by 32.3% YoY. In particular, transportation of metal wares grew by 43.5%, to 28.3 thousand containers, ferrous metals – more than 2-fold, to 4 thousand containers, and non-ferrous metals – by 16.3%, to 2.4 thousand containers. At the same time transportation of ferrous…
In 2019 Sverdlovsk railroad transported 32.8 million tons of cargo in Nizhniy Tagil region, up by 2.9% YoY. In particular, transportation of ferrous metals grew by 4%, to 4.6 million tons, and coke – by 10.9%, to 0.6 million tons. At the same time transportation of iron ore dropped by 2.7%, to 11.7 million tons,…
In 2019 Russian Railroads transported over 5 million TEU containers, up by 12.6% YoY. In particular, RZD transported 287.8 thousand containers with metal wares, up by 8.3%, 140.7 thousand containers with ferrous metals, up by 14.4%, and 114.6 thousand containers with non-ferrous metals, up by 6.3%. (Ukrainian metal)
In 2019 Ukrainian metal companies decreased gas consumption by 2% YoY, to 1.8 billion cubic meters. Electricity consumption dropped by 5%, to 11.2 billion kW-h. (Ukrainian metal)