中国40%铁矿停产 上半年炼钢企业总利润下降50%
(2012-09-28)
据媒体报道，中国铁矿石及钢铁业，为自己描绘了一幅黯淡的前景，据透露，由于价格偏低，中国大约40%的铁矿，已经停产。
中国最大上市炼钢企业宝钢(Baosteel)，昨日宣布，面对疲弱需求，将进一步减产，这个消息，强化了中国钢铁工业协会(CISA)主办的年度会议上的悲观基调。宝钢的减产计划，似乎表明，行业对北京方面，本月批准的1500亿美元基建项目计划，没有什么信心，认为，其最多只能提供暂时的缓解。
铁矿石和钢材价格，在上述支出增加计划获得批准后，一度上升，但自那以来，已经回落。过去10年期间，中国的钢材需求，以两位数增幅，不断增长，但今年，已降至个位数增幅。其结果是，官方统计数据显示，今年上半年，中国炼钢企业（包括宝钢、鞍钢和武钢）的总利润，同比下降50%。
中国钢材需求下降，已进而引发铁矿石和炼焦煤消费量下降，从而，打击一些全球最大的矿业集团，包括，巴西的淡水河谷(Vale)、力拓(Rio Tinto)、必和必拓(BHP Billiton)以及英美资源(Anglo American)。
曾在2011年初，达到每吨，近200美元，史上最高位的铁矿石价格，近期，跌至每吨，89美元的三年低位。价格下跌，已促使一些矿商，叫停澳大利亚（全球最大铁矿石出产国）的一些巨额投资项目。
但是，一些利好因素，可能即将显现。随着铁矿石价格跌至低于生产成本的水平，中国铁矿石企业，开始让一些矿山停产。
中国冶金矿山企业协会(Metallurgical Mines Association of China)执行副秘书长刘效良在上述会议上表示，价格滑坡，已迫使中国约40%的铁矿石矿山，暂停生产。
The shutdown of 40% of the iron ore in China, the total profits of the steel-making enterprises in the first half of the year decreased by 50%
(2012-09-28)
According to media reports, China’s iron ore and steel industry, for themselves portrayed a bleak outlook It has been revealed that, due to the low price of about 40% of the iron ore in China, has been discontinued.
Baoshan Iron and Steel (Baosteel), China’s largest listed steel-making enterprises, announced yesterday, the face of weak demand, and will be further cuts, the news, and strengthen the pessimistic tone of the annual meeting organized by the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA). Baosteel cut plan, seems to indicate that the industry of Beijing, this month approved a $ 150 billion infrastructure project plan, no confidence that can only provide temporary relief.
Iron ore and steel prices, after the plan is approved in the spending increase, once rose, but since then have dropped. During the past 10 years, China’s demand for steel, double-digit growth, growing, but this year, has dropped to single-digit increase. As a result, official statistics show that in the first half of this year, the total profits of the Chinese steelmaking enterprises (including Baosteel, Anshan Iron and Steel and Wuhan Iron and Steel), down 50%.
Decline in Chinese steel demand has in turn triggered the decline in iron ore and coking coal consumption amount, thus, to combat some of the world’s largest mining Group, including Brazil, the Tamsui River Valley (Vale), force Tinto (Rio Tinto), will and must Billiton (BHP Billiton), and Anglo American plc (Anglo American).
In early 2011, a tonne, nearly $ 200, the highest bit of the history of the iron ore price, recent, per ton fell to three-year low of $ 89. Prices, has prompted some mining companies to halt the huge investment projects in Australia (the world’s largest iron ore producer).
However, a number of favorable factors, may be about to appear. With iron ore prices fall below the level of the cost of production, the Chinese iron ore companies began to allow some mines to stop production.
Liu Xiaoliang, executive deputy secretary general of the China Metallurgical Mining Enterprise Association (Metallurgical Mines Association of China) in the meeting said that the price declines have forced China to about 40% of the iron ore mines to suspend production.