Turkey's iron ore imports up 6.56 percent in January-September

Tuesday, 21 November 2017 12:06:16 (GMT+3)   |   Istanbul
       

In September this year, Turkey's iron ore imports totaled 814,307 mt, down 5.4 percent month on month and falling by 4.8 percent compared to the same month of the previous year, according to the statistics provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK). The value of these imports decreased by 15.6 percent to $68.14 million compared to the previous month and was up 16.5 percent year on year.

In the first nine months of the current year, Turkey's iron ore imports amounted to 8.22 million mt, up 6.56 percent, while the value of these imports increased by 52.4 percent to $765.9 million, both year on year.
 
In the given period, Turkey's iron ore imports from Brazil stood at 3,429,870 mt, down 11.74 percent year on year. Brazil was followed by Sweden which supplied 1,488,257 mt, while Turkey's iron ore imports from Ukraine in the given period amounted to 1,085,038 mt.
 
Turkey's iron ore import sources in the January-September period of this year are as follows:

 

Country

Amount (mt)

 

 

 

 

 

 

January-September

2017

January-September

2016

Y-o-y change (%)

September 2017

September 2016

Y-o-y change (%)

Brazil

3,429,870

3,886,117

-11.74

339,363

416,396

-18.50

Sweden

1,488,257

1,164,530

27.80

164,994

167,907

-1.73

Ukraine

1,085,038

1,452,799

-25.31

192,775

199,051

-3.15

Russia

987,728

554,026

78.28

29,153

71,703

-59.34

South Africa

581,628

277,728

109.42

88,005

-

-

Canada

508,619

334,926

51.86

-

-

-

Finland

143,129

-

-

-

-

-

 

Turkey's iron ore import sources in the January-September period of this year can be seen in the graph below:


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