The government has prolonged for 2 years the ban to export steel scrap, including pipes, rails, and elements of railroad and rolling stock. Stainless steel scrap exports are allowed provided the contracts are registered with the Ministry of Economy not later than 5 days before shipping. The ban was introduced in October 2018. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-August Ukraine exported 37.082 thousand tons of ferrous metals scrap, down 8.1-fold YoY, valued at $10.259 million, down 9.6-fold. In particular, in August Ukraine exported 155 tons of scrap, in July – 204 tons, in June – 208 tons, in May – 8.086 thousand tons, in April – 8.791 thousand tons, in March –…
The Federal Antimonopoly Service has allowed a company affiliated with Translom to buy the Sinara Group scrap procuring business. According to the analysts the merged company will not control more than 14% of the scrap market. In particular, Germes was allowed to buy TMK-Chermet. There are no companies with the market share over 35% in…
The Russian government has set up a 1.009-million ton quota for exports of ferrous metal scrap and waste to the countries outside the Eurasian Economic Union starting from September 1 until the end of 2019, the government said in a ruling published on the website for disclosure of data on state procurements. The Industry and…
On August 21 Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways) sold six batches of scrap valued at 34.6 million UAH. The scrap was sold at the Prozorro Sale auctions. Energosteel purchased 2.6 thousand tons of scrap for 15.4 million UAH. Dneprostal bought 1.6 thousand tons of axle scrap for 9.2 million UAH, as well as 0.155 thousand tons of…
In June Russia exported 590.3 thousand tons of scrap, up by 17.5% YoY and by 31% MoM. According to the Federal Customs Statistics, in 6 months exports dropped by 13%, to 2.44 million tons. Turkey remains the main customer accounting for 44% of all Russian scrap exports, down by 15%. Average price in June was…
The state concern Ukrpromvneshekspertisa forecasts that prices of ferrous scrap will fall by 3.5-3.6%, to 5.3-5.5 thousand UAH per ton. Local metal companies will be cautiously decreasing the price of raw materials purchased due to the drop of rolled metal cost on world markets. But the price drop will not be considerable, as scrap procurement…
The Moscow subsidiary of the First Cargo Company in January-July transported 946 thousand tons of ferrous scrap, up by 6% YoY. “This year our key clients – Severstal and NLMK – have increased loading of ferrous scrap due to the high demand on the domestic market”, the subsidiary deputy director on transportation Sergey Pronin said.…