In January-March Azerbaijan imported 71630.6 tons of rolled steel, up by 24.9% valued at $43123.9 thousand. According to the Statistics Committee, ferrous bars imports dropped by 20.3%, to 14829.2 tons valued at $8608.9 thousand, ferrous angles imports went up by 23.7%, to 7654.4 tons at $5318.2 thousand, and pipes – decreased by 73.6%, to 20660.4…
In January-March Russia imported 282.8 thousand tons of coated flat rolled metal, up by 9.6% YoY. This is also the highest imports volume for the last 4 years. Galvanized steel accounted for 58% of the imports, polymer-coated rolled metal – for 25.6%, the rest was tin-plate. The main supplier is Kazakhstan (44.3%, up by 60.5%…
In January-March Kazakhstan exported $10.8 billion worth of products, up by 30% YoY. Exports to EAEU countries increased by 39.2%, to $1.2 billion, with $1 billion on behalf of Russia (up by 36% YoY). Exports to Kyrgyzstan increased by 44%, to $97.5 million, to Armenia – 15-fold, to $165 thousand, to Belarus – 7-fold, to…
In January-March Seaport St. Petersburg handled 1.8 million tons of cargoes, up by 4.6% YoY. According to the company statement, the positive dynamics has to do with the increase of metal exports. In particular, throughput of ferrous metals exceeded 1 million tons, up by 57% YoY, non-ferrous metals – 0.4 million tons, up by 1.2%,…
In 2016 Russia consumed 2.6 million tons of galvanized steel and 1.9 million tons of polymer-coated rolled metal. Metal Profile Company processed and sold some 600 thousand tons of coated metal, according to the company commercial director Dmitry Andreev. The expert noted a worrying trend of thinning metal. In 2015 0.3-0.35 mm thick steel consumption…
In January-February the share of metal and metal wares in the imports from foreign countries totaled 5.4% (5.6% in January-February 2015). According to the Federal Customs Service, the cost of the products increased by 23.5% YoY, and their volume – by 30.3%. Imports of ferrous metals and wares increased by 35.3%, while pipe deliveries dropped…
Metal railroad exports in January-March decreased by 6.3% YoY, to 7.07 million tons, imports increased 3.9-fold, to 160 thousand tons. Railroad metal throughput in Q1 dropped by 4.7% YoY, to 7.23 million tons. Railroad metal delivery to port Novorossiysk for exports dropped by 12.2%, to 2.6 million tons, Tuapse – by 0.7%, to 560 thousand…
EvrazHolding marketing and aftersales department director Valentin Krizsky believes that rebars consumption in 2017 will grow by 8% YoY, to 6827 thousand tons. As of April rebars consumption is on the level of 536 thousand tons per month, up from 446 thousand tons in February and 511 thousand tons in March. Consumption of structural shapes…
