In the first quarter of 2013 ferrous
metals transit decreased by 22% YoY, the 2013 to 2012 results showed a fall by
34%, to 2.27 million tons.
This year increase is stipulated by the 1.9
times rise in transit to land points (over 200 thousand tons), while deliveries
to sea ports decreased by 3%, to 620 thousand tons.
Ferrous
metals loading in January-March increased with the rise on the level of 3.5%,
to 7.6 million tons, with loading for export increasing by 9.6%, to 6.1 million
tons, while loading for domestic deliveries fell by 44%, to 1.5 million tons. (Ukrainian
metal)