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…
Russia produces around 19 million tons of hot-rolled sheet per year, including 14 million tons of thin sheet and 5 million tons of plates. In 2017-2018 a third of this volume was exported. Hot-rolled metal imports grew from 1 million tons in 2016 to 2 million tons in 2017-2018. Domestic consumption of hot-rolled metal in…
In January-February, Ukrainian metal manufacturers sold 369 thousand tons to the domestic market. The share of the market in the output was 12%. In January-February 2018, domestic market received 470 thousand tons of metal, and the share was 15.2%. All in all, domestic market in 2 months received 555.9 thousand tons of rolled metal, including…
In January-April, Sverdlovsk region railroad transported 11.9 million tons of cargo, up by 0.2% YoY. In April throughput dropped by 0.9%, to 17.5 billion ton-km. In particular, transportation of ferrous metals grew by 7.9%, to 3.6 million tons, of ferrous scrap – by 0.3%, to 728.4 thousand tons, of iron and manganese ore – by…
In April, Russian railroad transported 107.1 million tons of cargo, down by 1.9% YoY. At the same time, in January-April, transportation grew by 0.1%, to 425.8 million tons. 39.4 million tons accounted for iron and manganese ore, up by 6.8%. Russian railroad transported 25.7 million tons of ferrous metals, down by 2.8%, as well as…
In January-February metal companies decreased rolled metal consumption by 16.2% YoY, to 555.9 thousand tons. Imports accounted for 186.9 thousand tons, or 33.6%. In January-February 2018, the domestic market consumed 663.1 thousand tons of rolled metal, including 193.1 thousand tons, or 29.1% of imported metal. In 2 months Ukraine produced 3.08 million tons of rolled…
In January-February, export prices increased by 11.1% YoY, and import prices – by 8.5%. In particular, ferrous metals export prices dropped by 5.3%, ferroalloys – by 3%, aluminum – by 2.7%, copper – by 2.3%, zinc – by 1.5% and chromium ores – by 1.7%. At the same tine coal prices grew by 14.7%, copper…