In January-November Ukrainian metal companies consumed 1.55 billion cubic meters of gas, down by 16% YoY. Average daily gas consumption totaled 4.6 million cubic meters against 5.5 million in January-November 2015. At the same time in November gas consumption increased by 10 million cubic meters MoM, to 155 million cubic meters. Average daily consumption totaled…
In January-October Ukraine sold 1387.6 billion UAH of products and services, up by 14.8% YoY, with 376.3 billion UAH exported. According to the State Statistics Service, metal and metal wares manufacture accounted for 17.6% of the total sales volume, mining – 13.1%. In October mining sales volume went up by 19.5% YoY, in particular, by…
In January-November the network of Russian Railways loaded 1.117 billion tons, up by 0.6% YoY, the company’s press center says. In the reporting period the railways shipped 297.6 million tons of coal, up by 1.6% YoY; 10.7 million tons of coke, up by 4.6% YoY; 100.5 million tons of iron and manganese ores, up by…
In December Ukrainian metal companies plan to produce 2.1 million tons of steel, 2 million tons of pig iron and 1.8 million tons of rolled metal. According to Ukrmetallurgprom, the forecast for November was 1.9 million tons of steel and pig iron each, as well as 1.7 million tons of rolled metal. In October Ukraine…
The Antimonopoly committee of Ukraine has to check the intentions of Ukrzaliznytsia on increasing transportation tariffs in 2017 by 25% for cargo and by 35% for passengers. This has been voiced by the chairman of the Metallurgists Federation of Ukraine Sergey Belenky. According to him Ukrzaliznytsia management has officially confirmed this plan. “The Ministry of…
In November Russian Railways increased throughput by 2.6% YoY, to 34.06 million tons. In particular, the company transshipped 9.9 million tons of coal, up by 3% YoY. Iron and manganese ore transshipment went up by 4.5% YoY, to 3 million tons, ferrous metals scrap – by 10.4%, to 0.4 million tons, and coke – by…
The plant will produce a variety of metal products, among them heavy-duty grids for further production of gabion systems used for prevention and elimination of emergency situations. The projected capacity of the plant will amount to 5,000 tons of metal products per year at the first phase, with its further increase. It is expected that…
Ukrzaliznytsia has finished reconstruction of the railroad route Kamysh-Zarya – Volnovakha. Now 23 pairs of cargo trains and 4 passenger trains will use it every day. This will allow Mariupol metal companies to increase output. According to Metinvest, Ukraine was losing some $1 billion of revenues per year because of the damaged railroad infrastructure. (Ukrainian…
