Dnipro Metallurgical Plant (DMZ), a part of DCH Steel of businessman Aleksandr Yaroslavsky’s DCH Group, cut rolled steel production by 54.6% year-on-year to 33.8 thousand tons in January-August this year.
According to information in DCH Steel’s corporate newspaper on Thursday, the company did not produce rolled metal products in August, but rolling shop No. 2 shipped 2.3 thousand tons of steel products to consumers. In August 2023, the company produced 4.4 thousand tons of rolled metal products.
“The August rolling campaign has been postponed to September due to a change in the delivery time of billets. The rollers are planning to start working on September 13, and it all depends on the pace of billets supply by the customer,” the company said in a statement.
At the same time, coke production in the first eight months of 2024 decreased by 2% to 194 thousand tons. In August, coke production decreased by 6.7% compared to the previous month to 24.4 thousand tons. In August 2023, 25.8 thousand tons of coke were produced.
As reported, in 2023, DMZ increased its rolled metal output by 86.2% compared to 2022, up to 105.6 thousand tons, and coke output by 38.5%, up to 292.7 thousand tons.
In 2022, the plant reduced rolled steel production by 74.2% compared to 2021, to 58.4 thousand tons, and coke production by 56.3%, to 211.3 thousand tons.
DMZ specializes in the production of steel, pig iron, rolled products and products made from them.
On March 1, 2018, DCH Group signed an agreement to buy Dnipro Metallurgical Plant from Evraz.
At a meeting of the faction “Servant of the People” with the participation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky nine candidates for new ministers were agreed upon, the candidacy of First Deputy Foreign Minister Andriy Sibiga is proposed for the post of the head of the Foreign Ministry.
“A meeting of the faction was held…On the agenda – personnel renewal…President Volodymyr Zelensky joined us. Based on the results of the faction meeting, we have worked out a general picture of personnel rotations to strengthen the state: the Foreign Ministry – Andrei Sibiga,” the head of the Servant of the People faction, David Arahamiya, wrote in Telegram on Wednesday.
According to Arahamiya, Alexei Kuleba, deputy head of the Office of the President, is proposed for the post of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Regional Policy. “He will head the ministry as it works now. Subsequently, as it was conceived, it will be divided into infrastructure and regional policy areas,” Arahamiya said. He also said that Olga Stefanishina is proposed for the post of Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration – Minister of Justice.
Deputy Defense Minister Natalia Kalmykova is proposed for the post of Minister of Veterans Affairs, while Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Nikolai Tochitsky is proposed for the post of Minister of Culture and Information Policy.
They intend to appoint interim Minister of Youth and Sports Matvei Bedny to the post of Minister of Youth and Sports.
Also, according to Arahamiya, Deputy Energy Minister Svitlana Hrynchuk is proposed for the post of Minister of Ecology.
The Ministry of Strategic Industry may be headed by the director-general of the Ukrainian Defense Industry JSC, German Smetanin.
According to the head of the Servant of the People faction, Oleksandr Kamyshyn will move to the presidential office, where he will continue to deal with the issue of arms and infrastructure. In addition, Irina Vereshchuk moves to the Office of the President, who will work as a specialized deputy head of the OP.
“Discussed the creation of a new institution in the government with the working title “Ministry of return of Ukrainians”. We are holding a discussion of candidates who could head it,” – wrote Arahamiya.
Ukrainian banks as of Wednesday issued 288 thousand cards, which will be charged compensation under the state program “National cashback”, said Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Economy of Ukraine Yulia Sviridenko.
“For two days our partner banks (of the state program “National Cashback”) – it is, in fact, all the largest banks in our state, issued a total of 288 thousand cards,” she said on the air of the national telethon ‘United News’ on Wednesday.
According to Sviridenko, more than 600 manufacturers have already joined the state program, registering 63 thousand goods in the system.
“At the time of the launch of the program, nine retail chains have already credited cashback, somewhere around 40 more are in the process of joining,” the first deputy prime minister said.
She recalled that the cashback program started on September 2 in beta testing mode, which is tentatively to last about a month.
As reported, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine at a meeting on August 20 approved the procedure for granting “National cashback”, according to which Ukrainians will be able to receive compensation for 10% of the cost of goods purchased by them. The maximum amount of cashback is 3 thousand UAH/month, the funds can be spent on medical and utility services, sports, movies, train tickets, donate to the AFU or buy war bonds.
PrJSC Novoselovsky Mining and Processing Plant (NGOK, Kharkiv region) will pay dividends to shareholders in the amount of 0.08 kopecks per share, totaling UAH 3.4 million.
According to the company’s announcement in the information disclosure system of the National Securities and Stock Market Commission (NSSMC), on May 3, 2024, the annual general meeting of shareholders decided to allocate part of the net profit of 2023 in the amount of UAH 3.4 million to pay dividends to shareholders in cash.
“The amount of dividends per share is 0.08 kopecks (before taxes to be withheld and paid in accordance with the laws of Ukraine). On September 4, 2024, the company’s supervisory board decided that dividends based on the results of 2023 shall be paid in accordance with the decision of the general meeting held remotely by paying the entire amount of dividends in two parts through the depository system of Ukraine in accordance with the procedure established by law to shareholders included in the list of persons entitled to receive dividends as of September 19, 2024,” the company said in a statement.
At the same time, it was specified that the dividends will be paid between September 23 and October 25, 2024.
“Novoselovsky Mining and Processing Plant was established in 2000. It is engaged in the extraction of sand, gravel and clay.
According to NDU’s data for the second quarter of 2024, Silica Holding LLC (Ukraine) owns 94.8205% of the company.
The authorized capital is UAH 21.25 million.
Since the beginning of 2024, medicines produced in India have accounted for 8.3% of the total volume of medicines imported to Ukraine.
The State Service for Medicinal Products and Drug Control (Goslexluzhba) informed Interfax-Ukraine that since the beginning of 2024, 3213 series (32824807 packages) from 65 Indian pharmaceutical manufacturers have been submitted for state quality control, which makes up 8.3% of the total volume of medicines imported to Ukraine.
At the same time during 2022-2023 10924 series of medicinal products manufactured in India were submitted for state quality control, including 4715 in 2022 and 6209 in 2023, which is 54705914 and 51309132 packages respectively.
In addition, the State Service of Medicinal Products with reference to the data of the State Register of Medicinal Products reported that since the beginning of 2024 Indian pharmaceutical manufacturers have registered in Ukraine a little more than 100 drugs (excluding active pharmaceutical ingredients, API – IF-U), currently in Ukraine are registered 1999 drugs manufactured in India, in 2023 in Ukraine were registered 1895 Indian drugs, in 2022 – 1709, in 2021 – 1472, in 2020 – 1165.
Thus, the dynamics of registration of Indian medicinal products in Ukraine over the last five years is slowing down: if the number of registered medicinal products manufactured in India in 2021 was 26.2% higher than a year earlier, then at the end of 2023 – only by 10.9%.
In January-August 2024, Ukrainian seaports increased cargo transshipment by 1.7 times compared to the same period in 2023, up to 66.8 million tons of cargo.
“According to the operational data of the State Enterprise “Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority” (USPA), from January to August 2024, Ukrainian seaports handled 66.8 million tons of cargo. The figures are significantly higher than in the same period in 2023, when the volume of cargo handled amounted to 37.7 million tons,” the USPA reported on its Facebook page on Wednesday.
More than half of the volume of cargo handled, 41.7 million tons, was the products of the Ukrainian agricultural sector, the report said.
In August 2024, Ukrainian ports handled 6.8 million tons of cargo, more than double the results of August 2023, the USPA reported. Of this volume, 4 million tons were agricultural products that were supplied to foreign markets.
Earlier it was reported that Ukrainian ports handled 59.9 million tons in January-July this year.
