CARGO BUSINESS 3-09.indd - ZSSK Cargo

and at the end of the year, the crisis showed its full potential.
ZSSK CARGO carries out transportations of iron ore not only in import
for Slovak customers, but also in transit for foreign customers.
In this context, many questions have arisen. These could have
had a significant impact on our company, yet nobody, not even
the metallurgical companies, were able to answer them – what
decrease could be foreseen? Would the iron ore be prefered from the
Commonwealth of Independent States or from the overseas?
At present, some of those questions can be answered. Decrease in
transportations carried out by ZSSK CARGO related to metallurgy for
the 1st quarter equals to 41 % interannually. In transportations of
iron ore for foreign customers, the company observed a reduction
in performances by 55 %. More details on share of metallurgical
transportations on ZSSK CARGO transportations, on share of
individual commodities, on transportation flows and on decrease of
steel production in the EU and in the world are specified in tables and
graphs below.
These statistical data reflect the production of raw steel, i.e.
steel designated for production of final consumption products in
a particular steel plant and steel dispatched in the form of slabs to the
location of further processing (rolling and so on). For example, steel
production in USS Košice includes steel produced in their own iron
works, while a part of it has been directly processed to final products
(sheets, rods, ingot bars) in Košice, part of it has been dispatched, in
the form of slabs, to USS Serbia. Serbia can only indicate the volume
of steel produced in Serbia, i.e. excluding volume of production made
up of slabs imported from Slovakia.
What are the forecasts of development in metallurgical industry
for the years to come? There is no definite answer. Economists and
representatives of steel plants remain very careful in their estimates.
The original assumptions from the beginning of 2009 indicated an
expected recovery in the last quarter of 2009, but today we can see
that only getting closer to the values of the previous period will be
the issue of the next few years. Still, we are pleased to hear that the
projects of new metallurgical plants are being either prepared or built,
such as plants in Strážske in Slovakia or in the neighbouring countries.
These are the new challenges for ZSSK CARGO.
Rudolf KUBIŠ, Marketing Section
2007 2008 I. - VI. 2008 I. - VI. 2009 Pokles / Decrease
49,154 mil. t 44,525 mil. t 23,601 mil. t 15,290 mil. t -35,2%
28,650 mil. t 25,768 mil. t 13,945 mil. t 8,167 mil. t -41,4%
58.3% 57.9% 59.1% 53.4%
2008 I. - VI. 2008 I. - VI. 2009 Pokles/Decrease
12,380 mil. t 6,637 mil. t 3,848 mil. t -42,0%
3,829 mil. t 2,100 mil. t 1,572 mil. t -25,1%
1,371 mil. t 0,660 mil. t 0,416 mil. t -36,9%
1,270 mil. t 9,397 mil. t 5,836 mil. t -37,9%
18,850 mil. t 9,397 mil. t 5,836 mil. t -37,9%
6,138 mil. t 3,442 mil. t 1,678 mil. t -51,3%
0,576 mil. t 0,265 mil. t 0,200 mil. t -24,6%
0,204 mil. t 0,104 mil. t 0,059 mil. t -43,0%
6,918 mil. t 3,811 mil. t 1,937 mil. t -49,2%
25,768 mil. t 13,208 mil. t 7,773 mil. t -41,1%
Preprava železnej rudy za I. – VI. 2003 – 2009 (v tonách)
Transportation flows of iron ore for I. – VI. 2008 / 2009
Preprava železnej rudy za I. – VI. 2003 – 2009 (v tonách)
Transportation of iron ore for I. – VI. 2003 – 2009 (in tons)
8 000 000
7 000 000
6 000 000
5 000 000
4 000 000
3 000 000
2 000 000
1 000 000
0
6 018 928
2003
7 355 876
2004
6 965 052
2005
2006
2007
Pokles vo výrobe ocele v EÚ a vo svete za I. - VI. 2008/2009
Decrease in steel production in the EU and in the world: I. - VI.
2008/2009
Krajina/Country I. - VI. 2008 I. - VI. 2009 Rozdiel Pokles
Difference Decrease
Slovensko 2,642 1,728 -0,914 -35%
Česká republika /
The Czech Republic 3,596 2,046 -1,550 -43%
Poľsko / Poland 5,432 3,046 -2,386 -44%
Rakúsko / Austria 3,945 2,463 -1,482 -38%
Srbsko / Serbia 1,004 0,249 -0,755 -75%
Rumunsko / Romania 2,893 1,110 -1,783 -62%
Nemecko / Germany 24,415 13,786 -10,629 -44%
Taliansko / Italy 17,043 9,741 -7,302 -43%
Francúzsko / France 10,002 5,853 -4,149 -41%
EÚ 27 / EU 27 109,550 61,589 -47,961 -44%
Rusko / Russia 38,366 26,810 -11,556 -30%
Ukrajina / Ukraine 22,248 13,615 -8,633 -39%
USA / USA 50,947 24,541 -26,406 -52%
Čína / China 262,368 266,013 3,645 1%
India / India 27,197 27,298 0,101 0%
Japonsko / Japan 61,896 36,692 -25,204 -41%
Južná Kórea / South Korea 27,611 22,851 -4,760 -17%
Svet / World 697,205 547,979 -149,226 -21%
7 046 077
6 845 517
Zdroj: World Steel Association / Source: World Steel Association
Údaje sú v mil. ton/ Data in mil. tons
6 637 678
2008
3 847 387
2009
Celosvetový priemer ovplyvnený 48,6-percentným podielom čínskeho hutníctva na svetovej
produkcii.
World-wide average is influenced by 48,6-per cent share of Chinese metallurgy in world
production.
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