In January-June the sea trade port St. Petersburg transshipped 3.5 million tons of cargo, down by 7% YoY. Ferrous metals throughput dropped by 26%, to 1.5 million tons. The decrease is due to the drop of exports. At the same time non-ferrous metals throughput increased by 20%, to 0.705 million tons. Throughput of scrap remained…
In January-June Ukrainian metal makers supplied 1.312 million tons of rolled metal to the domestic market. In 6 months domestic market received 1.974 million tons of rolled metal, of which imports accounted for 661.8 thousand tons, or 33.5%. In H1 2018 domestic market received 2.081 million tons, including 653.3 thousand tons of imports, or 31.4%…
Russia has asked for consultations within the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the U.S. steel anti-dumping duties, the WTO said in a statement on July 9. Russia thinks that the measure does not meet the requirements of the WTO’s Anti-Dumping Agreement, the organization said. (Prime/Ukrainian metal)
In May, prices of industrial products increased by 2.3% MoM and by 4.8% since December 2018. Mining companies increased prices by 7.4%, and processing by 3.4%. In particular, since the start of the year prices for metal ores have grown by 14.2%, and for coal by 10%. Zinc became 10.8% more expensive, ore – 6.6%,…
RZD has suggested changing the structure of tariffs on the transportation of the metal raw materials and finished products. In particular, tariffs for the transportation of coke, iron ore concentrate and metal ores will sharply increase, while those for ferrous metal will slightly drop. RZD believes, that as a result of the tariff change, metal…
Severstal deems the VTB Capital report on Russian steel demand too optimistic. The analysts believe that from 2019 steel consumption in Russia will grow by 5% per year and will have reached 14 million tons by 2025. The growth will be due to the national projects – creation of infrastructure valued at $170 billion will…
Russia produces around 19 million tons of hot-rolled sheet per year, including 14 million tons of thin sheet and 5 million tons of plates. In 2017-2018 a third of this volume was exported. Hot-rolled metal imports grew from 1 million tons in 2016 to 2 million tons in 2017-2018. Domestic consumption of hot-rolled metal in…
In January-February, Ukrainian metal manufacturers sold 369 thousand tons to the domestic market. The share of the market in the output was 12%. In January-February 2018, domestic market received 470 thousand tons of metal, and the share was 15.2%. All in all, domestic market in 2 months received 555.9 thousand tons of rolled metal, including…
