Belarusian Railways has decided to reduce from August 1, 2009 the transit tariffs for transporting pig iron and ferrous metals to Russia's Kaliningrad region to the level adopted in Russia.
The decision will extend only to the transportation of products of Russian steelmaker Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK), Russian mining and metallurgy company Metalloinvest's steel producing subsidiary Oskol Electrometallurgical Plant (OEMK), and of one of Russia's largest producers of merchant pig iron, Tulachermet. The companies in question have guaranteed to increase the transportation of their products to Kaliningrad ports by up to one million mt in 2009.