Belarus’ industrial output decreased by 1.7% YoY in January-September to 58.136 billion Belarusian rubles (Br), or $30.199 billion at the official rate of the National Bank, the National Statistical Committee (Belstat) reported. Production of coke, oil products and nuclear materials reduced by 9.3% YoY in January-September to 8.351 billion rubles ($4.338 billion). The output of…
Since 2010 the efficiency of the state-owned sea trade port Yuzhny increased two-fold thanks to the cargo of Ukrainian metal companies. “Our taxes have increased from 482 million UAH in 2010 to 960 million UAH in 2015”, the port director Alexander Lagosha explained. And the main reason for the payments increase was the stable loading…
In 2016 steel consumption in Ukraine is expected to increase by 30% YoY, to 4.4 million tons. In 2015 steel consumption dropped by 21.6% YoY, to 3.3 million tons. In 2017 analysts expect steel consumption to grow by 6% YoY, to 4.6 million tons. Steel consumption in Russia in 2016 will drop by 3.6% YoY,…
Industrial products prices increase totaled 2.6% in September after 0.2% rise in August. According to the State Statistics Service, since the beginning of the year prices have increased by 22.1% YoY, or by 19.6% YoY in September. Mining and quarry industry products price went up by 8.3%, in particular that of iron ore – by…
In January-September Ukrainian metal companies exported $5.37 billion worth of products. According to the State Fiscal Service, steel products account for 23% of the total exports. At the same time, Kriviy Rih was unable to supply iron ore concentrate to Europe due to the bad work of Ukrzaliznytsia. Metal companies also blame Ukrzaliznytsia for the…
Cargo railway transportation in Ukraine is on the brink of collapsing: there are no spare parts and cars and huge difficulties with fuel purchases. Ukrzaliznytsia problems greatly affect metal and mining companies. Ukraine has the highest port fees in the world, railroad transportation tariffs are constantly growing, and the gas transportation fees are very high.…
Ukraine produces some 200 thousand tons of castings per year. In 2015 it exported around 102 thousand tons. Russia (40796 tons, or 40.05%), Germany (8670, 8.51%), Poland (7266 tons, 7.13%), Kazakhstan (6103, 5.99%) and Czech Republic (2602 tons, or 2.55%) are the main consumers of Ukrainian castings. These countries take up 64% of Ukrainian exports.…
A metal structures works is planned to be constructed in Kropotkin (Krasnodarski Krai). The total cost of the project is 225 million rubles. The project capacity is 63 thousand tons of metal structures, 9.6 thousand tons of power transmission poles and 5.5 thousand tons of beam guardrails per year. (Ukrainian metal)
