Ukraine’s iron ore and coal shipments continue as usual

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel, P.Eng Leave a comment

Ukraine’s producers and consumers of steelmaking raw materials are so far unaffected by the political and social crisis in the country and continue to trade inbound and outbound as usual.

“Business continues as normal; operations and export volumes are fine today [March 5],” said a source close to Ferrexpo, Ukraine’s largest iron ore exporter in 2013. It shipped more than 10.8 million mt of iron ore products accounting for almost 30% of Ukraine’s total iron ore exports.