Ukrainian Railways has put scrap worth UAH 200 million up for sale

On July 4, 2025, Ukrainian Railways JSC published 56 lots of ferrous scrap on the Prozorro.Sales platform. A total of 27,320 tons of raw materials with a total starting price of UAH 200.77 million are offered for sale.

A series of auctions is scheduled for July 14 of this year. The average price per ton of scrap metal is UAH 7,650. The types of raw materials include 1, 3, 6, 9, 300, 304, 308, 309, and 312. The deadline for submitting bids is July 13 at 8:00 p.m.

As reported by GMK Center, Ukrainian Railways resumed trading in scrap on May 16 this year. Prior to that, raw materials had not been sold since September 2023. In the first nine months of that year, the railway operator sold only 76,400 tons of scrap, while in 2022, it sold 113,000 tons out of a planned 170,000 tons.

Since May, the railway operator has held several rounds of auctions, most of which were unsuccessful. In particular, 9,910 tons of scrap metal were sold for UAH 70.15 million, while raw materials worth approximately UAH 500 million were put up for sale. Among the buyers were NPP Ferolit, Ukrpobutbrut LLC, Zakhid-Technomedbud LLC, and Lyon Agro LLC.

Participants are not motivated to participate, probably due to the inflated price. In particular, the last auction in 2023, after which there was a long break in trading on the part of UZ, was held at a price of 5.1-6.5 thousand UAH/t (an average of 6.35 thousand UAH/t for 53 lots). Thus, the most valuable type of scrap (Type 3) rose in price by more than 2 thousand UAH/t. At the same time, prices at scrap metal collection centers as of June 2025 ranged from 3.5 thousand UAH/t to 6 thousand UAH/t.