The state company Russian Railroads has started using decreasing coefficients when calculating tariffs for transportation of rolled sheet for NLMK and some other companies. The decreasing coefficient will be valid through December 31. It covers rolled sheet transportation from the railroad stations of Novolipetsk, Revda, Apparatnaya, Nizhneserginskaya, Yekaterinburg, Vorsino and Vladivostok. At the same time…
The throughput of the railroad rout Kamysh-Zarya – Volnovakha, through which Mariupol metal works get raw materials, is too low, Azovstal CEO Enver Tskitishvili told the infrastructure minister Vladimir Omelyan. According to him, on average 15.8 pairs of cargo trains go via this route daily, despite the fact that Ukrzaliznytsia invested a lot to increase…
In August Ukrainian mining and metal companies received only 21% of the railroad cars they needed. “It’s still early to say about the improvement. There is still an irregularity in provision. As to the mining and metal companies, some of them get just 0-15% of the cars needed”, Ukrmetallurgprom president Alexander Kalenkov said. But since…
In January-July Ukraine sold 1.185 trillion UAH worth of industrial products (goods and services), up by 26.6% YoY. According to the State Statistics Service, in July mining and processing industry sales increased by 20.6% YoY, including exports – by 24.9%. Metal products accounted for 17.8% of sales, while mining and quarrying products for 14.9%. (Ukrainian…
The Cabinet of Ministers is underestimating the roll of metal industry in the national economy, the chairman of the Metal Makers Federation of Ukraine Sergey Belenky believes. According to him the Prime Minister of Ukraine Vladimir Groysman presented priorities in lawmaking for the autumn – some 50 governmental bills, which, when approved by the Verkhovnaya…
The construction of the bridge over the Kerch Strait will have negative consequences for Ukrainian metallurgy. Earlier the Russian authorities claimed that the project would not affect the free sailing in the Black and Azov Seas, nor the throughput of Ukrainian Azov ports – Mariupol and Berdyansk. “But the reality is different. Moscow has imposed…
According to Ukrmetallurgprom president Alexander Kalenkov, the situation with provision of mining and metal companies with railroad cars is stable – it’s still bad. “In 10 days, despite our efforts to improve situation, the progress in railroad car supplies is mostly unseen – the same 18%”, he said. He noted that while some companies could…
In July metal companies increased natural gas consumption by 4% YoY, to 130 million cubic meters. Average daily gas consumption totaled 4.2 million cubic meters. In 2016 daily average daily consumption totaled 4.8 million cubic meters, down from 5.5 million cubic meters in 2015. In January-July Ukrainian metal companies consumed 1 billion cubic meters of…