Russian Railways ups ferrous metal shipments 0.4% in 6M
MOSCOW. June 14 (Interfax) - Russian Railways (RZD) shipped 45.9 million tonnes of ferrous metals in January-June, 0.6% less than in the same period of last year, the company said in materials.
Domestic shipments grew 4.1% to 25.014 million tonnes and international shipments were up 3.9% to 20.944 million tonnes, including 1.4% to 12.329 million tonnes via ports and 7.6%. Imports fell 16.7% to 3.436 million tonnes, exports rose 7.9% to 16.406 million tonnes and transit came to 1.102 million tonnes.
Rail shipments by nine leading Russian steel producers ('000 tonnes):
| Domestic shipments | Export | Total | |||||||
| 6M 2012 | 6M 2011 | % | 6M 2012 | 6M 2011 | % | 6M 2012 | 6M 2011 | % | |
| Magnitogorsk Iron Steel Works (MMK) | 3 508,9 | 3 082,1 | 13,8% | 1 950,9 | 2 100,7 | -7,1% | 5 459,8 | 5 182,7 | 5,3% |
| Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK) | 1 561,5 | 1 407,5 | 10,9% | 4 522,6 | 3 161,9 | 43,0% | 6 084,2 | 4 569,4 | 33,2% |
| Severstal | 2 908,1 | 3 085,7 | -5,8% | 1 411,9 | 1 561,5 | -9,6% | 4 319,9 | 4 647,2 | -7,0% |
| Evraz ZSMK | 1 183,4 | 1 260,6 | -6,1% | 1 519,1 | 1 564,6 | -2,9% | 2 702,5 | 2 825,3 | -4,3% |
| Nizhny Tagil Iron Steel Works | 1 232,3 | 1 236,6 | -0,3% | 872,3 | 819,3 | 6,5% | 2 104,6 | 2 055,9 | 2,4% |
| Chelyabinsk metallurgical Plant (CMP) | 1 635,7 | 1 717,5 | -4,8% | 595,5 | 282,1 | 111,1% | 2 231,2 | 1 999,6 | 11,6% |
| Evraz NKMK | 621,6 | 659,0 | -5,7% | 34,1 | 106,2 | -67,8% | 655,8 | 765,1 | -14,3% |
| Urals Steel | 594,3 | 713,4 | -16,7% | 907,9 | 937,5 | -3,2% | 1 502,2 | 1 650,9 | -9,0% |
| Oskol Electrometallurgical Combine (OEMK) | 516,6 | 484,4 | 6,7% | 1 027,3 | 1 008,4 | 1,9% | 1543,9 | 1492,8 | 3,4% |
| Total: | 13 762,4 | 13 646,8 | 0,8% | 12 841,6 | 11 542,2 | 11,3% | 26 604,0 | 25 189,0 | 5,6% |
