Ukraine's largest vertically-integrated mining and steel group Metinvest has announced that it supplied long-distance P50 rails made by its subsidiary Azovstal for the construction of a railway track to the port of Mariel in Cuba. The development of infrastructure for the port, which is 50 km from Havana, is driven by its establishment as Cuba’s first free economic zone in 2014. More than 200 km of track have been constructed in the last three years from rails supplied by Metinvest, after Cuba confirmed the quality of Metinvest’s products.
In the first half of this year, Azovstal shipped more than 4,000 metric tons of P50 rails for the Cuban Ministry of Transportation. Metinvest Group stated that, taking into consideration the high sales efficiency of rolled steel for railway tracks, it is developing its product range and focusing on demand in both domestic and external markets.