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Drybulk freight rates information sources; the cost of shipping iron ore and coal around the world

April 14, 2008

If you want to understand freight rates, you might first want to go to an industry overview provided by Genco Shipping and Trading Limited It includes a very good description of how different drybulk materials are shipped and what the rates you will find actually mean. You can find current iron ore and coal freight […]

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Presentation to Steel Business Briefing Conference Chicago

March 12, 2008

Below is a presentation I made at Steel Business Briefing’s North American steel conference held in Chicago March 2008. The topic of my panel was “American Steel: Land of Opportunity”. My presentation deals with the recent acquisition of steel assets in North America by companies headquartered outside the region and argues that the North American […]

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Steel Manufacturers’ Association Presentation

February 27, 2008

Below is a presentation I made recently at the SMA Board of Directors meeting in Florida. It deals with the issue of organizational size in today’s steel industry and asks some questions (more than providing any answers) about how the structure of steel organizations will change as they deal with much different dimensions of scale […]

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Global steel demand poised to grow along with GDP

December 18, 2007

Until a few years ago the steel industry was considered mature, and the moniker was accurate. Global steel demand grew more slowly than did the world’s population. In much of the developed world, demand for steel was stagnant after having gone through a long period of decline. Since 1998, however, the steel industry seems to […]

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IISI forecasts steel demand growth of 6.8% for 2008

October 9, 2007

The IISI published its short range outlook October 8. Here’s the link. It’s not available in any better form than a PDF, but that’s attached, IISI Short Range Outlook 10/8. The summary table is shown below: Table 1: Short range outlook for apparent steel use (2006-2008) in ‘000 of tonnes Regions 2006 2007 2008 % […]

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Largest steel producers 2006

September 7, 2007

Here’s some of the largest steel company data from Metal Bulletin. Just click on the link below to be taken to a full version of the spreadsheet snapshot shown here. EditGrid Spreadsheet by user/jasmo58.

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