Ukrainian Railways sold scrap for UAH 60 million from the planned UAH 113.2 million

The railway operator successfully held 11 scrap auctions out of 28 planned

Ukrainian Railways (UZ) successfully sold 7.7 thousand tons of ferrous scrap worth UAH 59.92 million. Initially, the railway operator planned to sell 17.3 thousand tons of raw materials for UAH 113.2 million. The average price per ton of sold secondary metal raw materials was UAH 7.71 thousand. This is evidenced by the relevant information in the electronic trading system Prozorro. Sales.

In total, 28 lots of raw materials were published, for which 11 auctions were successfully held. UZ failed to sell 9.6 thousand tons of scrap for more than UAH 63 million due to insufficient number of participants in the auctions.

Lots that UZ managed to sell at auctions September 18 in 2023

The lot number	Weight, t	Cost, UAH	Buyer	Average price per ton, UAH
847B	440.0	3,104,200.00	Dniprostal	7055.0
873B	560.2	3,880,236.00	Ferolit	6926.5
872B	560.2	4,761,372.00	Dniprostal	8499.4
871B	671.5	6,129,789.74	Dniprostal	9128.5
870B	715.4	5,047,309.27	Dniprostal	7055.0
869B	1011.1	6,638,974.52	Dniprostal	6566.0
868B	906.5	8,171,921.00	Centerstal Plus	9015.1
867B	906.5	8,117,500.00	Centerstal Plus	8955.1
866B	363.1	2,420,827.70	Dniprostal	6667.0
853B	776.9	5,826,562.50	Centerstal Plus	7500.0
852B	776.9	5,826,562.50	Centerstal Plus	7500.0

Among the scrap sold are types 4, 361 and 3. These are railcar frames and other large rolling stock parts, as well as wheels and rims. The buyer of raw materials is Centrstal Plus, Dniprostal and Ferolit.

From the beginning of 2023, UZ successfully implemented 63.1 thousand tons of ferrous metal scrap worth UAH 348.8 million.

As GMK Center reported earlier, in 2022, Ukrainian Raiways successfully implemented 113.04 thousand scrap ferrous metals with a total value of UAH 669.98 million. This is 43.8% and 55.4% less, respectively, compared to 2021.

Among the main buyers of raw materials were:

• Metinvest-Resources – 37 lots (33.28 thousand tons for UAH 178.1 million);
• Dniprostal – 36 lots (30.34 thousand tons for UAH 155.66 million);
• Ferolit – 16 lots (12.3 thousand tons for UAH 95.19 million).

In general, the railway year the operator planned to implement 170 thousand tons of scrap metal. The state company also intended to dismantle 13,000 wagons, the weight of which is partially included in the above figure.