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.…
Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways) is auctioning another batch of scrap via the Prozorro.Sales – the company is offering 12 lots with the combined weight of over 73 thousand tons. The initial price is almost 379 million UAH, but the company intends to receive at least 400 million UAH. The auctions will be held in August. The…
In July Ukraine procured 192 thousand tons of scrap, down by 41% MoM. All the scrap procured was supplied to the domestic metal enterprises. No scrap was exported. In 7 months of 1.918 million tons of scrap procured (down by 12% YoY) domestic companies received 1.881 million tons (down by 1%), while 37 thousand tons…
In January-June Ukraine imported 39.394 thousand tons of scrap valued at $22.024 million, up by 52.7% and by 0.1% YoY respectively. According to the State Fiscal Service, the main suppliers were Turkey (49.5%), Russia (41.65%) and the Netherlands (3.02%). Ukraine also imported 488 tons of hot-briquetted iron from Russia valued at $166 thousand, as opposed…
In January-July Ukraine decreased steel scrap exports 7.6-fold YoY, to 36.297 thousand tons, valued at $10.186 million, down 9.1-fold. According to the State Fiscal Service, in July Ukraine exported 0.204 thousand tons of scrap, in June – 0.208 thousand tons, in May – 8.086 thousand tons, in April – 8.791 thousand tons, in March –…
The Russian president Vladimir Putin has granted the Russian Guard and the Ministry of Defense the right to sell their scrap of ferrous and non-ferrous metals without auctions to TransLom. The products of armament and military machines cannot be sold. TransLom is the ex-RZD company. Since October 2016 its revenue increased 2-fold in 2018, to…