16 Jul 2014 18:00
Rusal ships 23% more aluminum by rail in H1 - RZD
MOSCOW. July 16 (Interfax) - UC Rusal increased aluminum shipments by rail 23.4% year-on-year in January-June to 1.386 million tonnes, Russian Railways (RZD) said.
Export shipments rose 15% to 1.226 million tonnes but domestic shipments were up nearly 2.8-fold to 159,700 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-June 2014 ('000 tonnes):
| Total shipment | Export | Total shipment | |||||||
| Smelter | 6M 2014 | 6M 2013 | % | 6M 2014 | 6M 2013 | % | 6M 2014 | 6M 2013 | % |
| Bratsk | 2,9 | 26,8 | 9,2 fold | 401,4 | 446,1 | 11% | 404,2 | 473,0 | 17% |
| Krasnoyarsk | 17,3 | 64,5 | 3,7 fold | 277,2 | 331,3 | 19,5% | 294,4 | 395,8 | 34% |
| Sayanogorsk | 1,6 | 27,0 | 17 fold | 200,6 | 308,0 | 53% | 202,1 | 335,0 | 66% |
| Novokuznetsk | 13,5 | 32,1 | 2,1 fold | 51,5 | 57,6 | 12% | 65,0 | 89,7 | 38% |
| Irkutsk | 6,0 | 5,1 | - 15% | 67,2 | 62,7 | - 6,7% | 73,3 | 67,8 | - 7,5 % |
| Kandalaksha | 6,0 | 1,4 | (76,7%) | 14,9 | 13,7 | 91,9% | 20,9 | 15,1 | 72,2% |
| Volgograd | 6,6 | - | - | 40,7 | 6,8 | (83,3%) | 47,3 | 6,8 | (85,7%) |
| Urals | 1,5 | 0,1 | (93,3%) | 0 | 0,1 | - | 1,5 | 0,1 | (93,3%) |
| Nadvoitsk | 0,3 | 2,7 | 9 fold | 3,5 | 0 | - | 3,8 | 2,7 | - 29% |
| Bogoslovsk | 0,8 | 0 | - | 6,7 | 0 | - | 7,4 | 0 | - |
| Volkhov | 0,1 | 0 | - | 2,8 | 0 | - | 2,9 | 0 | - |
Alumina shipments fell, by 8.9% to 3.75 million tonnes, with imports down 17% to 1.94 million tonnes, while domestic shipments rose 6.2% to 1.1 million tonnes.
