In January-November 2016 Russia imported 4.04 million tons of rolled steel and pipes valued at $3120 million, down by 5.5% and by 4.8% YoY respectively. Ukraine remains the largest supplier (almost one third of total imports). Still its exports dropped by 9.5% YoY. Kazakhstan came second (21.6%), having increased its deliveries by 14.6% YoY, followed…
Prices of industrial manufacturers in December 2016 increased by 0.6%, according to Rosstat. In 2016 prices went up by 7.4% YoY. Metal companies demonstrated the highest increase in prices – by 3.6% in December, or by 18.1% in 2016. (Ukrainian metal)
Aktau city is planning to build a steelworks in the territory of Aktau Seaport. The project is to be launched from Q1. The plant will produce molded steel and cast iron items for various sectors of national economy. Progressive method – lost foam casting – will be applied at the plant. Its territory will cover…
In 2016 volumes of industrial output in Belarus totaled Br79.4 billion, down by 0.4% YoY. According to the National Statistics Committee, output volumes in mining industry reached 99.3%, in processing – 99.9%. In December 2016 industrial output increased by 5.1% YoY. (Ukrainian metal)
According to the Association of sea trade ports of the Russian Federation, in 2016 ferrous metals transshipment increased by 6.7% YoY, to 721.9 million tons. Arctic ports transshipped 49.7 million tons of ferrous metals, up by 40.6% YoY, Baltic ports – 236.6 million tons, up by 2.5%, Azov – Black Sea ports – 244 million…
In 2016 Ukrainian metal companies increased electricity consumption by 0.02% YoY, to 28.76 billion kW-h. According to the Ministry of energy and coal industry, machine-building companies increased electricity consumption by 0.2%, to 3.676 billion kW-h, while chemical companies consumed 2.968 billion kW-h of electricity, down by 3.8%. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-December 2016 Russian seaports handled 721.7 million tons of cargo (up by 6.7% YoY), says the press center of Association of Commercial Sea Ports. Transshipment of dry bulk cargo totaled 335.8 million tons (+7.5%) including 136.3 million tons of coal (+10.5%), 28.2 million tons of ferrous metals (+7.8%), 8.7 million tons of ore (+29.6%),…
As of January 12, Ukrainian mining and metal companies are holding 38 cargo trains (2092 cars). “The cars are being held because the companies are unable to unload or load them”, Ukrzaliznytsia press-service reported. “In the first 10 days of January Ukrzaliznytsia supplied 47.8 thousand railroad cars for iron ore raw materials, while the companies…