Russian cement companies delivered 4.43Mt of cement by rail

In the first quarter of 2018, Russian cement companies supplied 4.43Mt of cement to their customers by rail.

EuroCement Group accounted for a 34.5 per cent share of this total, down from 37.5 per cent the previous year, according to Esmerk Russian News.

The top five suppliers by rail transport are Novoroscement with 405,950t (+18.3 per cent), South Ural Mining And Processing Company with 348,500t (+35.4 per cent), Mordovcement with 338,250t (-25.8 per cent), Sukholozhskcement with 295,220t (+7.7 per cent), and Topkinskiy Cement with 277,780t (+5.3 per cent).

Considerable gains in deliveries were reported by Teploozerskiy Cement Plant (6.3-fold growth), as well as Kransoyarsk Cement (2.9-fold), PeterburgCement (2.2-fold), Serebryansky cement plant (+50.8 per cent) and Gornozavodskcement (+49.6 per cent). Reductions in deliveries were noted by Novotroitsk cement plant  (-56.2 per cent), as well as Spasskcement (-48.8 per cent), Katav Cement (-48.7 per cent), Pikalevsky cement (-47.5 per cent) and HeidelbergCement RUS (Novogurovskiy, -46.8 per cent).