Ferrous metals shipments on Russian railways up 3.8%, coal 10.7% in 7M
MOSCOW. Aug 9 (Interfax) - The Russian Railways (RZD) network carried 48.98 million tonnes of ferrous metals in January-July, 3.8% more than in the same period of last year, the company said in materials seen by Interfax.
Domestic shipments were up 3.9% year-on-year to 26.12 million tonnes.
International shipments grew 3.7% to 22.86 million tonnes. Shipments via ports declined 2.9% to 15.05 million tonnes and shipments via border crossings rose 19.2% to 7.81 million tonnes.
Exports shipments declined 1.3% to 19.13 million tonnes and imports jumped 54.7% to 2.93 million tonnes. Transit shipments were up 3.1% to 0.8 million tonnes.
Rail shipments by leading Russian steel producers in January-July 2017 ('000 tonnes):
| Company | Domestic shipments | Export | Total | |||
| 7M 2017 | 7M 2017/7M 2016 | 7M 2017 | 7M 2017/7M 2016 | 7M 2017 | 7M 2017/7M 2016 | |
| NLMK | 2 300.8 | 93.3% | 5 198.1 | 102.6% | 7 499.0 | 99.6% |
| Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) | 3 811.9 | 100.7% | 2 504.6 | 99.6% | 6 316.5 | 100.3% |
| Severstal | 3 194.8 | 104.6% | 1 447.2 | 104.1% | 4 642.1 | 104.5% |
| Evraz ZSMK | 1 296.4 | 88.7% | 2 350.4 | 112.2% | 3 646.8 | 102.6% |
| Evraz NTMK | 1 217.9 | 122.9% | 1 180.1 | 82.6% | 2 398.0 | 99.1% |
| Chelyabinsk metallurgical Plant (CMP) | 1 785.6 | 104.7% | 232.3 | 59.4% | 2 017.9 | 96.2% |
| Urals Steel | 592.1 | 118.7% | 1 244.3 | 87.7% | 1 836.3 | 95.8% |
| Oskol Electrometallurgical Combine (OEMK) | 472.3 | 159.3% | 1 312.0 | 84.8% | 1 784.3 | 96.7% |
| Tulachermet | 152.7 | 106.2% | 1 147.7 | 97.7% | 1 300.4 | 98.6% |
| Vyksa Steel Works | 878.8 | 87.4% | 250.5 | 552.7% | 1 129.3 | 107.5% |
| NSMMZ | 852.8 | 112.2% | 76.2 | 71.8% | 929.1 | 107.3% |
| ChelPipe | 440.2 | 83.3% | 212.5 | 694.3% | 652.8 | 116.7% |
| Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant | 264.5 | 90.1% | 359.8 | 96.2% | 624.3 | 93.5% |
| NLMK Kaluga | 535.9 | 100.0% | 78.4 | 223.4% | 614.3 | 107.6% |
| Volzhsky Pipe Mill | 384.7 | 75.7% | 145.7 | 116.9% | 530.4 | 83.8% |
Coal shipments rose 10.7% year-on-year in January-July to 226.697 million tonnes. Domestic shipments were almost unchanged at 96.659 million tonnes. International shipments rose 19.8% to 130.04 million tonnes.
Imports grew 14.5% to 15.152 million tonnes and exports were up 19.4% to 111.54 million tonnes.