Ukraine issues January 2011 iron ore import and export data

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.