In the first three months of the current year, Ukraine registered a 2.4 percent decrease in its finished steel product output to 6.547 million mt, a 1.8 percent increase in its crude steel output to 8.322 million mt and a two percent rise in its pig iron production to 7.272 million mt, all year on year, 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 8.1 percent year on year to 4.428 million mt.
In the January-March period this year, Ukraine produced 16.890 million mt of iron ore concentrate and 5.453 million mt of iron ore pellets - up two percent and down four percent respectively compared to the same period last year.
In March alone, Ukraine produced 2.872 million mt of crude steel - up 10.4 percent, 2.302 million mt of finished steel products - up 12.7 percent, and 1.537 million mt of metallurgical coke - up 11 percent, all on month-on-month basis.