Ukrzaliznytsia sold 27.4 thousand tons of scrap metal for UAH 144.8 million

Ukrzaliznytsia (UZ) successfully held 28 auctions for the sale of scrap metal with a total weight of 27.4 thousand tons, earning UAH 144.84 million from the transactions. Initially, the railway operator planned to sell 29 lots of scrap – a total of 27.72 thousand tons for UAH 120.4 million. This is evidenced by the information on the relevant auctions in the ProZorro.Sales system.

Only 1 of the planned auctions did not take place due to insufficient number of participants. UZ failed to sell 325 tons of scrap for UAH 1.4 million. The average price per ton of raw materials in the auctions that took place was UAH 5.26 thousand.

Top 10 lots sold by UZ at auctions 30 November in 2022

Source: prozoro.sale.

Among the main buyers of secondary raw materials are Metinvest Resources LLC (15.06 thousand tons for UAH 66.71 million), Dniprostal LLC (3.71 thousand tons for UAH 17.08 million) and Center of Industrial Repair and Construction (3.1 thousand tons for UAH 24.64 million).

Among the scrap offered for the sale are types 1, 3, 4, and 510. These are rails, railcar frames, wheels, axles, and worn rolling stock parts.

As GMK Center reported earlier, from the beginning of 2022 UZ sold 121.73 thousand tons of scrap metal for UAH 741.35 million. In total for the year, the railway operator planned to implement 170 thousand tons of scrap, including 13 thousand railcars.

In 2021, Ukrzaliznytsia sold 201.2 thousand tons of scrap ferrous metals with a total value of UAH 1.503 billion. This is 38.8% more in monetary terms and 2.6 times more than in kind compared to 2020.

During the year, UZ managed to hold 84 auctions out of 210 published. Among the main buyers of raw materials are:

• Dniprostal – 28 lots (82.2 thousand tons for UAH 631.4 million);
• Metinvest-Resources – 26 lots (80.8 thousand tons for UAH 592.2 million);
• Ferolit – 16 lots (13.8 thousand tons for 112.2 million UAH).