Russia: metal companies get preferences from Railroads

The state company Russian Railroads has started using decreasing coefficients when calculating tariffs for transportation of rolled sheet for NLMK and some other companies. The decreasing coefficient will be valid through December 31. It covers rolled sheet transportation from the railroad stations of Novolipetsk, Revda, Apparatnaya, Nizhneserginskaya, Yekaterinburg, Vorsino and Vladivostok. At the same time…

Ukraine: Kerch bridge hurting metal makers

The construction of the bridge over the Kerch Strait will have negative consequences for Ukrainian metallurgy. Earlier the Russian authorities claimed that the project would not affect the free sailing in the Black and Azov Seas, nor the throughput of Ukrainian Azov ports – Mariupol and Berdyansk. “But the reality is different. Moscow has imposed…