According to the Association of Sea Trade Ports, the Russian seaports throughput in January-July increased by 10.5% YoY, to 449.7 million tons.
Coal has demonstrated the highest dynamics – 89.3 million tons, up by 16%.
At the same time ferrous metal throughput decreased by 1.3%, to 16.6 million tons. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-July railroad transportation to and from the ports totaled 2.25 million tons, down by 2.1% YoY. In particular, export transportation dropped by 3.5%, to 2.19 million tons, while imports increased by 92.8%, to 61.66 thousand tons. Railroad deliveries to port St. Petersburg totaled 1.08 million tons of non-ferrous metals, down by 10.8% YoY, to…
DetailsIn January-June Neryungri-Metallik, a part of Nordgold, mining for gold at the Gross deposits in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), produced 768 kg of gold (24.7 thousand ounces). According to the company statement, in Q2 gold output totaled 463 kg (14.9 thousand ounces), up from 305 kg or 9.8 thousand ounces in Q1. In 6…
DetailsRusal has put into operation a wire rod hardening furnaces at the Kandalaksha Aluminum Works. Investments totaled $5.6 million. The project began in March 2016. Now the works is capable of producing 6.8 thousand tons of 6101-T4 alloy wire rod per year, as well as improve its competitiveness and expand its client base. In March…
DetailsBelenergomash-BZEM has produced and supplied equipment (metal structures, pipelines, buckstay systems and bellows expansion joints) to Uralskaya Stal, a part of Metalloinvest. The group invests into the development of manufacture and efficiency improvement of its enterprises. Recently Lebedinsky GOK has constructed the largest manufacture of HBI in Russia. The next project was the heating and…
DetailsSeverstal has concluded an agreement with the Ust-Kamenogorsk Works of Technical Equipment (Kazakhstan) for the delivery of filters for the extraction system of the Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works sinter manufacture. Under the contract the company will produce an electric air filter with smoke exhaust with the capacity of 250 thousand cubic meters per hour.…
DetailsIn July Krasniy Octyabr Iron and Steel Works produced 31825 tons of steel, up by 9% from the plan, with rolled metal output up by 7%. Sales totaled 1.351 billion rubles. For the second time the works has produced bulk ingots of stainless steel – 6 ingots with the weight of 39.5 tons have been…
DetailsPJSC ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih is completing the preparation stage of Continuous Casting Machines (CCM) 2 and 3 construction, the work of which will enable to significantly increase production of cast billets. In the frames of the large-scale investment program of the plant the company will invest over $100 million in construction of two new CCMs.…
DetailsThe damage to the Gorlovka – Toretskoye water pipeline resulted in flooding of mines, and because of methane the citizens of Toretsk are under constant threat of explosion and gas poisoning. The pipeline was damaged in early January as the result of the shelling. And the water is flooding the Yuzhnaya mine and mine named…
DetailsIrkutsk Aluminum Works has fulfilled the first contract to produce wire rod of 3000 and 4000 series alloys. The batch of 20 tons has been sent to a Moscow region works, producing welding wire. The wire to weld aluminum sections and structures is in demand all across Russia, but is mostly manufactured of imported wire…
DetailsVysochaishy is preparing to put the first stage of manufacture at the Taryn Mining and Processing Works into operation in September. In August 2016 the government approved of the infrastructure support of the project at the Drazhnoye deposits in Yakutia. The project capacity of the first stage is 700 thousand tons of ore per year…
DetailsKyshtym Electrolitic Copper Plant has assembled a new bridge crane with the lifting capacity of 10 tons at its copper electrolysis shop. The company needed the new machine because of the future increase of output. The crane will be put into operation in the near future. Under the modernization program in 2017 KMEZ intends to…
DetailsEvraz ZSMK has put into operation the new rewinding machine. The Italian mill rewinds large 1-2.5 tons coils into smaller one of 100-150 kg. Such coils are easier to transport and unload, and their unwinding does not require additional equipment. The new mill is an important stage of a major capacity developing project. In 2013…
DetailsOver 70% of coal, illegally taken from the occupied territories of Donbass to Russia, are then exported through 2 companies, connected with brothers Alexander and Sergei Melnichuks. The former is the “deputy energy minister” of the so-called Lugansk People’s Republic, a terrorist organization, created and supported by Russia, while the latter legally trades in coal…
DetailsThe third vessel with anthracite from South Africa for DTEK has arrived. On August 14 the unloading began. The coal will be sent to Pridneprovskaya and Krivorozhskaya thermal power plants. The first vessel with African coal arrived on May 25, and the second on July 23. DTEK says it buys coal at around $100 per…
DetailsMetinvest mining and processing works have asked the acting chairman of Ukrzaliznytsia Yevgeny Kravtsov to help provide enough railroad wagons. While the enterprises need 4141 wagons, they received only 695 (or 16.7%). In particular InGOK needed 378 wagons from Uzhgorod to Slovakia, but received none, from Chop to the Czech Republic – 162 and 10…
DetailsAlmalyk Mining and Metallurgical Combine (AMMC, Almalyk city, Tashkent region), a monopoly copper producer in Uzbekistan, has started implementation of the second phase of the “Development of the Dalneye deposit” project, the press service of the AMMC reported. The work was started on the instruction of Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, who arrived in Almalyk to…
DetailsSubstantial construction works have been completed on the inclined conveyor barrel of the Vorgashorskaya mine of Vorkutaugol, one of the largest coal mining companies in Russia, a subsidiary of Severstal. The company has started the preparation of the coalmine, from which coking coal will be mined. The construction of ICB unit at the Vorgashorskaya mine…
DetailsA concept for reforming the country’s coal industry until 2020 approved by the government envisages the creation of state-owned enterprise National Coal Company, which will receive 33 state-owned coalmines, Deputy Prime Minister Volodymyr Kistion said at a first meeting of the interagency working group for settling crisis in coal industry. “It is easy to solve…
DetailsRail transportation of coal exported from Russia in January-June increased by 16.4% YoY, to 94.8 million tons. The railway transport statistics show that the largest coal exports volume was hauled to the Far East regional ports and border crossings points. According to Rosstat, in the first half of 2017 coal production in Russia increased by…
DetailsIn January-June Polyus increased gold output by 12%, to 938 thousand ounces (29.17 tons), mostly thanks to the growth of manufacture at Olimpiada and Verninskoye deposits. Gold sales increased by 17%, to 983 thousand ounces, including 71 thousand ounces in concentrate from Olimpiada. Sales revenue reached $1.217 billion, up by 14%, at the average price…
DetailsIn January-July the St. Petersburg subsidiary of the First Cargo Company transported 171.3 thousand tons of scrap, up 1.5-fold YoY. The company throughput in the segment increased by 60%, to 97.8 million ton-km. “The increase of scrap transportation via Oktyabrskaya railroad has to do with the high demand for scrap on behalf of Severstal and…
DetailsArcelorMittal Temirtau has ordered the services of mining coal and loading it into railroad cars, but has not paid the contractor over 36 million tenge.
The company filed a complaint and the court ordered AMT to fulfill its contract obligations. (Ukrainian metal)
Oskol Electrometallurgical Works is going on with its large-scale investment project – the construction of the reducing-sizing mill in its bar-rolling shop No. 2. Investments total 800 million rubles, and the output of rolled metal will as the result of the modernization increase by 67 thousand tons per year. The main and auxiliary machinery has…
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