In the first three months of the current year, Ukraine registered a 0.3 percent decrease year on year in its finished steel product output to 7.103 million mt, a 5.5 percent decrease in its crude steel output to 8.190 million mt and a 0.1 percent decline in its pig iron production to 7.120 million mt, according to the data issued by Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers.
The country's production of metallurgical coke in the given period went down by 1.5 percent year on year to 4.811 million mt in the given period.
In the January-March period this year, Ukraine produced 16.451 million mt of iron ore concentrate and 5.596 million mt of iron ore pellets - up 2.9 percent and 5.8 percent respectively compared to the same period last year.
In March alone, Ukraine produced 2.475 million mt of finished steel products - up 15.3 percent, 2.906 million mt of crude steel - up 17.9 percent, 2.473 million mt of pig iron - up 13.7 percent, and 1.655 million mt of metallurgical coke - up 10.9 percent, all on month-on-month basis.