President Shavkat Mirzieyev has reviewed the construction project of a metal plant on the basis of the Tebinbulak deposit in Karakapakstan. The reserves of the deposit are estimated at 1.1 billion tons. It is planned to mine 33 million tons of ore there and produce 1.5 million tons of iron per year. The capacity of…
In January-June automobile transportation of metal and mining products decreased. In particular, transportation of iron ore fell by 40%, to 415.3 thousand tons, and of metal – by 15.6%, to 1.49 million tons. According to the State Statistics Service, transportation of iron, steel, pig iron and ferroalloys dropped by 2.4%, to 370 thousand tons, of…
Electricity consumption in January-July dropped by 0.4% YoY, to 88.169 billion kW-h. According to the Ministry of energy and coal industry, industrial companies decreased electricity consumption by 0.9%, to 29.948 billion kW-h. In particular, the metal industry decreased consumption by 0.9%, to 17.153 billion kW-h. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-July 386.5 million tons of cargo were transported in Ukraine, up by 8.5% YoY. According to the State Statistics Service, railroad accounted for 152.1 million tons of cargo, down by 0.9%. The transportation of ferrous scrap dropped by 16.4%, of coke – by 13.7%, of coal – by 5.7% and of ferrous metals –…
In January-July Ukraine produced 12.7 million tons of steel and 10.9 million tons of rolled metal, up by 4% and by 2% YoY respectively. Pig iron manufacture dropped by 0.2%, to 11.9 million tons. In July steel output went up by 8% MoM, to 1.8 million tons, rolled metal – by 1%, to 1.5 million…
In July Ukrainian metal companies consumed some 220 million cubic meters of natural gas, up by 47% MoM. In 7 months gas consumption grew by 3% YoY, to 1.11 billion cubic meters. Metal companies also consumed 950 million kW-h of electricity, on par with June, and in January-July – 6.75 billion kW-h, down by 2%…
In January-July metal companies increased metal products transportation along the Dnipro River by 33.9% YoY, to 835.2 thousand tons. Combined cargo transportation grew by 31.5%, to 5.45 million tons. In 6 months metal transportation grew by 45%, to 647 thousand tons. In 2018 metal companies transported 1.29 million tons of metal along the river, up…
In July cargo transportation by Sverdlosvk Railroad in the Nizhniy Tagil region totaled 2.9 million tons, up by 4.6% YoY. In 7 months transportation grew by 4.1%, to 19 million tons. In particular, the railroad transported 6.8 million tons of iron ore, down by 4%, 2.5 million tons of non-ferrous ore, down by 1.7%, and…