In January-May Ukrzaliznytsia transported 29.8 million tons of iron and manganese ores, up by 5.7% YoY. According to the State Statistics Service, metal cargo transportation grew by 2.2%, to 43.1 million tons. Scrap transportation fell by 13.9%, to 1.1 million tons. Ukrzaliznytsia has also decreased ferrous metals transportation by 2.5%, to 8.5 million tons, and…
In January-April the consolidated throughput of Nakhodka Sea Trade Port terminals totaled 46.636 million tons, up by 0.3% YoY. Ferrous metals and pig iron accounted for 4.571 million tons, up by 3.4%. Non-ferrous metals throughput dropped by 21.2%, to 0.292 million tons. Iron ore indexes grew by 33.5%, to 0.969 million tons. (Ukrainian metal)
In case railroad transportation to the currently uncontrolled territories of Lugansk and Donetsk regions is resumed, Ukrzaliznytsia intends to have doubled the volumes of coal, iron ore and ferrous metals by 2030. According to the company strategy for 2019-2030, the export of ferrous metals will grow by 31.7% compared with 2018, to 21.809 million tons…
In 2018 metal industry demonstrated a profit of 689.6 million UAH as opposed to 9.8 billion UAH of losses in 2017. According to the State Statistics Service, 76.8% of enterprises received a profit of 34.5 billion UAH, with 23.2% having loses of 33.8 billion UAH. The metal industry profit constituted just 0.6% of the entire…
In January-May metal companies sold 1.064 million tons of metal to the domestic market. All in all local customers received 1.607 million tons of rolled metal, including 543.3 thousand tons or 33.8% of imported metal. In January-May 2018 local market consumed 1843.8 thousand tons of rolled metal, including 545.8 thousand tons of imported metal, or…
In January-May Ukraine increased metal cargo transportation via the Dnepr River by 39.4% YoY, to 441.5 thousand tons. In May, 210.4 thousand tons were transported, almost as much as during January-April. Last year metal companies transported 1.29 million tons of cargo via the Dnepr River, up by 6.7% YoY. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-May Ukraine decreased ferrous metals exports via its seaports by 3.7% YoY, to 6.6 million tons. According to the Ukrainian Administration of Sea Ports, pig iron exports dropped by 30.1%, to 934.7 thousand tons, rolled metal – by 1.8%, to 4 million tons, and scrap – by 24.9%, to 24 thousand tons. At the…
In May Kazakhstan produced 0.407 million tons of steel, down by 0.2% YoY. According to the Ministry of the National Economy, in January-May steel output dropped by 0.2%, to 1.931 million tons. Flat rolled metal manufacture went down by 10.1%, to 0.234 million tons, with 5 months results down by 34.4%, to 0.836 million tons.…