In January-August metal prices in Ukraine decreased by 5.4%, including local prices by 4.7% and export prices by 6.1%. According to the State Statistics Service, industrial prices at the same time grew by 7.6%, 9% and 1.5% respectively. Prices in metallic ore mining increased by 17.9%, 7.3% and 28%. This dynamics completely reflects global market…
In January-July industrial prices in Ukraine grew by 8.1% YoY, including domestic prices by 9.6% and export prices by 1.6%. According to the Service of State Statistics, the prices in metallic ore mining increased by 14.5%, including by 3.8% locally and by 24.7% for exports. At the same time, in metal manufacture prices dropped by…
In January-June the sea trade port St. Petersburg transshipped 3.5 million tons of cargo, down by 7% YoY. Ferrous metals throughput dropped by 26%, to 1.5 million tons. The decrease is due to the drop of exports. At the same time non-ferrous metals throughput increased by 20%, to 0.705 million tons. Throughput of scrap remained…
In January-June Ukrainian metal makers supplied 1.312 million tons of rolled metal to the domestic market. In 6 months domestic market received 1.974 million tons of rolled metal, of which imports accounted for 661.8 thousand tons, or 33.5%. In H1 2018 domestic market received 2.081 million tons, including 653.3 thousand tons of imports, or 31.4%…
Russia has asked for consultations within the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the U.S. steel anti-dumping duties, the WTO said in a statement on July 9. Russia thinks that the measure does not meet the requirements of the WTO’s Anti-Dumping Agreement, the organization said. (Prime/Ukrainian metal)
In May, prices of industrial products increased by 2.3% MoM and by 4.8% since December 2018. Mining companies increased prices by 7.4%, and processing by 3.4%. In particular, since the start of the year prices for metal ores have grown by 14.2%, and for coal by 10%. Zinc became 10.8% more expensive, ore – 6.6%,…
RZD has suggested changing the structure of tariffs on the transportation of the metal raw materials and finished products. In particular, tariffs for the transportation of coke, iron ore concentrate and metal ores will sharply increase, while those for ferrous metal will slightly drop. RZD believes, that as a result of the tariff change, metal…
Severstal deems the VTB Capital report on Russian steel demand too optimistic. The analysts believe that from 2019 steel consumption in Russia will grow by 5% per year and will have reached 14 million tons by 2025. The growth will be due to the national projects – creation of infrastructure valued at $170 billion will…