The Ukrainian mining and steel producing company Metinvest Holding (Metinvest) has announced the signing of a contract with Ukraine's Nikolayev region-based shipbuilding company Wadan Yards Оkean for the supply of 9,800 mt of flat steel for the construction of 16 barges.
The flat steel of 6-20 mm in thickness will be produced by Metinvest's subsidiary Azovstal from A and D steel grades and according to the standards of the Shipping Register of Ukraine. For the first stage of the barge construction project, 12,600 mt of shipbuilding steel products will be required, of which 9,800 mt are to be delivered by Metinvest during April-May 2009.
"Wadan Yards Оkean is one of our main clients, and we are happy that of all the suppliers involved in the project Metinvest-Ukraine will provide steel products for the major part of the order," Metinvest-Ukraine CEO Mr. Oleg Olshanskiy stated.
Metinvest has been collaborating with Wadan Yards Оkean since 2002, and its deliveries to the company in question have amounted to more than 61,000 mt of flat steel, certified under Lloyd's Register of Shipping, Germanischer Lloyd, Det Norske Veritas, and Russian Maritime Register of Shipping standards.