Ferrous metals shipments on Russian railways up 5.9%, coal 9.9% in 8M
MOSCOW. Oct 10 (Interfax) - The Russian Railways (RZD) network carried 64.06 million tonnes of ferrous metals in January-September, 5.9% more than in the same period of last year, the company said in materials seen by Interfax.
Domestic shipments were up 8.5% year-on-year to 35.09 million tonnes.
International shipments grew 3% to 28.9 million tonnes. Shipments via ports decreased 3.5% to 18.95 million tonnes and shipments via border crossings rose 17.9% to 10.02 million tonnes.
Exports shipments declined 1.2% to 24.23 million tonnes and imports jumped 41% to 3.7 million tonnes. Transit shipments were up 4.6% to 1.01 million tonnes.
Rail shipments by leading Russian steel producers in Jan-Sept 2017 ('000 tonnes):
| Company | Domestic shipments | Export | Total | |||
| 9M 2017 | 9M 2017/9M 2016 | 9M 2017 | 9M 2017/9M 2016 | 9M 2017 | 9M 2017/9M 2016 | |
| NLMK | 3 240,0 | 100,8% | 6 435,6 | 102,9% | 9 675,6 | 102,2% |
| Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) | 5 070,9 | 103,6% | 3 146,6 | 96,3% | 8 217,5 | 100,7% |
| Severstal | 4 108,3 | 106,0% | 1 557,6 | 100,1% | 5 665,9 | 104,4% |
| Evraz ZSMK | 1 671,0 | 91,6% | 3 056,1 | 110,5% | 4 727,1 | 103,0% |
| Evraz NTMK | 1 558,5 | 118,2% | 1 504,7 | 83,3% | 3 063,2 | 98,0% |
| Chelyabinsk metallurgical Plant (CMP) | 2 302,3 | 106,4% | 298,9 | 65,1% | 2 601,3 | 99,1% |
| Urals Steel | 772,2 | 123,5% | 1 586,3 | 86,0% | 2 358,5 | 95,5% |
| Oskol Electrometallurgical Combine (OEMK) | 583,4 | 148,8% | 1 699,2 | 84,8% | 2 282,6 | 95,3% |
| Tulachermet | 209,8 | 118,5% | 1 430,5 | 95,5% | 1 640,4 | 98,0% |
| Vyksa Steel Works | 1 171,9 | 93,6% | 342,2 | 411,6% | 1 514,1 | 113,4% |
| NSMMZ | 1 122,2 | 110,7% | 115,9 | 92,1% | 1 238,0 | 108,6% |
| ChelPipe | 593,1 | 90,7% | 245,1 | 426,0% | 838,2 | 117,8% |
| NLMK Kaluga | 355,9 | 101,2% | 457,9 | 89,3% | 813,8 | 94,1% |
| Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant | 671,1 | 101,3% | 97,5 | 207,2% | 768,7 | 108,3% |
| Volzhsky Pipe Mill | 490,2 | 75,9% | 236,8 | 168,1% | 726,9 | 92,4% |
Coal shipments rose 9.9% year-on-year in January-September to 289 million tonnes. Domestic shipments inched up 0.6% to 122.29 million tonnes. International shipments rose 17.9% to 166.7 million tonnes.
Imports grew 10.6% to 19.1 million tonnes and exports were up 18% to 143.5 million tonnes.