Ukrainian steelmakers replaced Russian coke with Colombian and Chinese
Moscow - Kyiv, April 6 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - Russian coke production enterprises are reducing supplies to Ukraine: in January-February 2015 they decreased 10 times. Since the end of 2014, local metallurgists have been seeking to change suppliers for political reasons - now Ukrainian steel is produced using Chinese and Colombian raw materials.
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The main supplier of Russian coke to Ukraine in 2014, according to the Ukrkoks association, was the OJSC Koks company, which is located in the Kemerovo region and is owned by entrepreneur and United Russia deputy Boris Zubitsky (together with his sons he owns 85,93, 2014%). This information is also indirectly confirmed by the Federal Customs Service data, according to which the main region of supplies to Ukraine in 288 was the Kemerovo region (60,6 thousand tons worth $2014 million). Also in November-December 67, supplies were carried out from the Altai Territory (14,5 thousand tons worth $49 million), apparently from Altai-koks (part of the structure of NLMK Vladimir Lisin), and from the Chelyabinsk region (8,4 thousand tons worth $146 million), as well as during the year - from the Moscow region (27,7 thousand tons worth $XNUMX million). Most likely, the supplies came from Mechel enterprises - the Moscow Coke and Gas Plant and Mechel-Coke.
In Ukraine, coke production has been almost constantly declining since June 2014: most of the coke-chemical enterprises in Ukraine are located on the territory of the DPR and LPR, and at the moment, due to the martial law, they cannot reach full capacity, they write "News".
According to Ukrkoks, in Ukraine the only enterprise that imports coke is ArcelorMittal Krivoy Rog. According to Viktor Tarnavsky, an analyst at the Metal Supply and Sales magazine, coke from Russia was mainly supplied to the Dnieper plant named after Dzerzhinsky Sergei Taruta. In January, the Dnieper plant received coke from Novorossiya from the Yasinovo and Alchevsk coke plants, and when hostilities resumed there in February, they had to stop these supplies and resume Russian ones.
At the beginning of 2015, Russian supplies of coking coal to Ukraine also began to decline.
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