According to the Ukrainian Association of Ore-dressing Enterprises (Ukrrudprom), in January 2011 Ukrainian
mining companies'
iron ore exports rose by 2.1 percent year on year to 2.7 million mt, while Ukrainian steelmakers' imports of
iron ore fell by 73.8 percent year on year to 75,100 mt, following the integration of
Ilyich Iron and Steel Works into the Ukrainian leading
mining and steel producing group
Metinvest.
In particular, in January 2011,
Ukraine's exports of
iron ore concentrate decreased by 10.5 percent year on year to one million mt, its exports of pellets went up by 22.3 percent to one million mt, while its exports of sintered ore climbed by 28 percent to 682,000 mt. In addition, in the first month of this year
Ukraine also shipped 18,000 mt of agglomerate for export - down 90 percent year on year.
Ukraine's main exporter of
iron ore is Ferrexpo Poltava
Mining.
On the other hand, in January 2011,
Ukraine's steel producers imported just 700 mt of
iron ore concentrate - down 99.6 percent year on year, and 74,400 mt of sintered ore - up 6.3 percent year on year. Meanwhile, Ukrainian steelmakers did not import any agglomerate and pellets in January 2011.
In January 2011, of
Ukraine's major steel producers,
iron ore was imported just by
ISD's subsidiaries Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Works named after F. Dzerzhinsky (10,000 mt of sintered ore - down 75.1 percent year on year) and Alchevsk Iron and Steel Works (64,400 mt of sintered ore, with no imports in January 2010), as well as by
Ilyich Iron and Steel Works of Mariupol, which, following integration with
Metinvest, imported just 700 mt of
iron ore concentrate - down from 231,000 mt of
iron ore in the same month last year.
Meanwhile,
Zaporizhstal and Dnepropetrovsk Iron and Steel Works named after Petrovsky, which were previously among
Ukraine's most important
iron ore importers, did not import any
iron ore in the first month of the current year.