The Ukrainian mining and steel producing company Metinvest Holding (Metinvest) has announced that in 2009 it will deliver about 16,000 mt of railroad rails to Byelorussian Railway.
Under the scope of the contract, up to the end of the current year Metinvest is to supply to Byelorussian Railway 14,000 mt of R-65 railroad rails with length of 25 m, and 2,000 mt of R-65 railroad rails with length of 12.5 m. The rails are to be produced at Metinvest's subsidiary Azovstal, and will be used for the repair of Byelorussian railways.
Over the past three years, Metinvest supplied about 30,000 mt of railroad rails to Byelorussian Railway. In addition, Metinvest supplies rails for the rail networks in Kazakhstan, Georgia and Uzbekistan.