13 May 2013 14:00
Rusal ships 11.3% less aluminum by rail in 4M - RZD
MOSCOW. May 13 (Interfax) - UC Rusal reduced aluminum shipments by rail 11.3% year-on-year in January-April to 748,300 tonnes, Russian Railways (RZD) said.
Export shipments fell 10% to 710,700 tonnes and domestic shipments fell 29.6% to 37,500 tonnes.
Alumina shipments edged down 0.2% to 2.394 million tonnes, with imports falling 1.3% to 1.573 million tonnes but domestic shipments rising 1.9% to 821,700 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-April 2013 ('000 tonnes):
| Total shipment | Export | Total shipment | |||||||
| Smelter | 2013 | 2012 | % | 2013 | 2012 | % | 2013 | 2012 | % |
| Sayanogorsk | 138,4 | 161,0 | -14,0 | 137,2 | 159,9 | -14,2 | 1,2 | 1,1 | 11,8 |
| Novokuznetsk (NkAZ) | 44,4 | 70,3 | -36,8 | 36,4 | 53,6 | -32,1 | 8,0 | 16,6 | -52,1 |
| Krasnoyarsk (KrAZ) | 186,5 | 209,2 | -10,9 | 174,5 | 196,2 | -11,1 | 12,0 | 13,0 | -7,8 |
| Bratsk (BrAZ) | 272,1 | 271,6 | 0,2 | 270,1 | 266,1 | 1,5 | 1,9 | 5,5 | -65,1 |
| Volgograd | 31,1 | 32,8 | -4,9 | 25,8 | 23,6 | 9,5 | 5,3 | 9,2 | -42,0 |
| Volkhov | 2,7 | 3,1 | -11,1 | 2,7 | 3,0 | -9,1 | - | 0,1 | -100 |
| Nadvoitsky | 3,3 | 16,0 | -79,6 | 3,1 | 15,0 | -79,6 | 0,2 | 1,0 | -80,3 |
| Kandalaksha | 13,2 | 13,8 | -4,8 | 9,4 | 11,9 | -21,1 | 3,8 | 2,0 | 93,8 |
| Irkutsk (IrKAZ) | 48,5 | 44,2 | 9,8 | 44,8 | 40,4 | 10,7 | 3,8 | 3,8 | - |
| Uralsky | 0,8 | 1,2 | -33,6 | - | 1,0 | -100 | 0,8 | 0,2 | 341,1 |
| Bogoslovsk | 7,3 | 20,2 | -63,8 | 6,7 | 19,1 | -65,2 | 0,6 | 1,0 | -37,6 |
| Total | 748,3 | 843,2 | -11,3 | 710,7 | 789,9 | -10,0 | 37,5 | 53,3 | -29,6 |