Metinvest keeps afloat despite alarming situation in Ukraine

Metinvest Group does not stop its work even in connection with the difficult situation in the east of Ukraine. The company supplies raw materials to its divisions and ships finished products to customers. Metinvest's logistics specialists, together with Ukrzyliznytsya, organized an operations center that coordinates freight transport routes in conditions of restrictions on movement on the railway network, and are considering the possibility of transporting goods across the sea.

Raw materials for Metinvest's mills and coke plants are now shipped through Yasinovaya station on the Donetsk railway. This section is under heavy pressure, but the supply of raw materials to the processing plants does not stop. The second echelon of freight traffic goes through the Pridneprovskaya railway to the Mariupol metallurgical plants. Due to the failure of some stations and routes, delivery times have significantly increased.

To re-start the shipment of raw materials from Krasnodonugol to coke plants, Metinvest cooperates with Ukrzyliznytsya in the field of restoration of the Izotovo-Semeikino-Novoe branch, which has not been operating until now. The partners hope to launch traffic on this site after August 10th.

Metinvest continues to build warehouses for raw materials in demand in the port of Mariupol in order to guarantee supplies to MMK im. Ilyich and Azovstal. Through the ports of Mariupol, Berdyansk and Yuzhny, it is planned to restore the supply of ore and coke to the coke-chemical divisions of the Metinvest group of enterprises.

Despite the unstable situation, the Group's mining plants have not reduced the current level of production and are planning to relocate about 50 thousand tons of raw materials for export. Metinvest is putting all its efforts into fulfilling previously signed contracts; the entire program of the enterprise is aimed at optimizing and increasing the level of shipment of finished processed products. If there are any reductions, it will mainly affect steel semi-finished products and supplies in the group's domestic market.