8 Aug 2014 17:51
Rusal ships 20% more aluminum by rail in 7M - RZD
MOSCOW. Aug 8 (Interfax) - UC Rusal's key smelters increased aluminum shipments by rail 19.7% year-on-year in January-July to 1.627 million tonnes, Russian Railways (RZD) said.
Export shipments rose 12.1% to 1.439 million tonnes but domestic shipments were up nearly 2.5-fold to 188,000 tonnes.
RZD's figures differ from Rusal's own, which are usually published later because, the aluminum company says, RZD reports aluminum shipped in containers as container cargo, without a breakdown for the type of cargo.
Aluminum shipments by rail from Rusal smelters in Jan-July 2014 ('000 tonnes):
| Domestic shipments | Export | Total | |||||||
| Smelters | 7M 2013 | 7M 2014 | Change | 7M 2013 | 7M 2014 | Change | 7M 2013 | 7M 2014 | Change |
| Bratsk | 5,4 | 30,7 | +5.6-fold | 479,1 | 521,1 | 8,8% | 484,4 | 551,8 | 13,9% |
| Krasnoyarsk | 23,6 | 74,9 | +3.2-fold | 333,9 | 396,6 | 18,8% | 357,5 | 471,5 | 31,9% |
| Sayanogorsk | 1,9 | 34,2 | +18-fold | 257,8 | 356,9 | 38,5% | 259,7 | 391,1 | 50,6% |
| Novokuznetsk | 18,2 | 37,5 | +2-fold | 63,9 | 67,8 | 6,1% | 82,1 | 105,3 | 28,2% |
| Irkutsk | 7,2 | 5,7 | (21%) | 75,6 | 71,7 | (5,1%) | 82,8 | 77,5 | (6,4%) |
| Kandalaksha | 7,3 | 1,7 | (77%) | 16,8 | 17,2 | 2,3% | 24,1 | 18,9 | (21,5%) |
| Volgograd | 8,9 | 0,0 | - | 43,3 | 8,1 | (81,3%) | 52,2 | 8,1 | (84,5%) |
| Urals | 1,5 | 0,1 | - | 0,0 | 0,2 | - | 1,6 | 0,2 | - |
| Nadvoitsk | 0,4 | 3,2 | - | 3,5 | 0,0 | - | 3,9 | 3,2 | - |
| Bogoslovsk | 1,3 | 0,0 | - | 7,5 | 0,0 | - | 8,8 | 0,0 | - |
| Volkhov | 0,3 | 0,0 | - | 2,8 | 0,0 | - | 3,1 | 0,0 | - |
Alumina shipments fell, by 8.4% to 3.83 million tonnes, with imports down 15.6% to 2.3 million tonnes, while domestic shipments rose 5% to 1.53 million tonnes.
