Average salary in the metal and mining industry in Ukraine is 2 times higher than the monthly wages of financial and law workers. According to the Federation of metallurgists, in December 2018 the average salary of Ukrainian metal makers ranged between 10 thousand UAH and 26.9 thousand UAH. In particular, a typical blast furnace gas…
In H2 2018 the number of people employed in metal industry grew by 0.5%, to 189.7 thousand people. According to the State Statistics Service, average salary in the industry increased by 29% last year, to 12.496 thousand UAH. Metal companies also paid a lot of taxes, becoming major taxpayers. (Ukrainian metal)
In January the West-Siberian Railroad transported 22 million tons of cargo in Kuzbass region, up by 5% YoY. In particular, the transportation of coal grew by 3.5%, to 19 million tons. The railroad also transported 775 thousand tons of iron ore (+49%) and 547 thousand tons of ferrous metals (+2.7%). (Ukrainian metal)
In January Russian Railroads transported 105.4 million tons of cargo, up by 1.6% YoY. In particular, coal transportation grew by 5.2%, to 32.9 million tons, coke – by 9.1%, to 0.986 million tons, iron and manganese ore – by 7.5%, to 9.9 million tons, and ferrous metals – by 0.1%, to 6.6 million tons. At…
In 2018 Ukrainian metal enterprises consumed some 1.84 billion cubic meters of natural gas, up by 4% YoY. In December 2018, gas consumption grew by 13% MoM, to 170 million cubic meters. Energy consumption last year was 11.76 billion kW-h, up by 6% YoY. (Ukrainian metal)
Ukraine has covered the quotas for the delivery of metal products to EU by 55-100%. As of January 7, Ukraine has supplied 2.72 million tons of hot-rolled metal to EU, or 63.734% of the quota. The quota for the cold-rolled metal has been 54.93% fulfilled (724 thousand tons supplied), plates – 60.35% (870 thousand tons),…
In 2013-2017 the major metal companies have been seriously decreasing the number of their employees. In particular, Evraz fired 40 thousand people, and Severstal – some 10 thousand. At the same time at present Severstal intends to hire new personnel for Yakovlevsky GOK. (Ukrainian metal)
In November Ukrainian metal companies increased natural gas consumption by 7% MoM, to 150 million cubic meters. In 11 months consumption grew by 6%, to 1670 million cubic meters. Electricity consumption in January-November was 10.74 billion kWh, up by 7% YoY. (Ukrainian metal)
