Metalloinvest maintains full capacity loading - CEO

TASHKENT. April 25 (Interfax) - Metalloinvest is maintaining full capacity loading, the company's CEO Nazim Efendiev said on the sidelines of the "Innoprom.Central Asia" exhibition.

"Metalloinvest is fully loaded," he said in response to the relevant question.

In late March, Grigory Rapota, a senator from the Kursk region, said during an "open dialogue" with Oleg Belozerov, head of Russian Railways (RZD), in the Federation Council that Metalloinvest may cut production due to problems with exports due to termination of transit via Lithuania. "I have just been to Mikhailovsky GOK [operated by Metalloinvest, Kursk Region] they have problems with transportation of goods, they will have to scale back production by about a third, or about 200,000 tonnes per month," Rapota said. He passed the company's request to "consider the issue of transferring this cargo to eastern ports" on to the RZD chief.

In early March, Lithuanian Railways announced that it was terminating transportation of goods from Metalloinvest , whose co-owner Alisher Usmanov was included in the EU sanctions list, to the sea port of Klaipeda. Last year, Lithuanian Railways transported more than 1 million tons of Metalloinvest products.