The low utilisation of hot-rolled coil (HRC) quotas so far this quarter is testimony to low demand for imported tonnes at the start of this year.

NIOB can accommodate vessels with a maximum length of 300m, width of 48m and draft of 14.5m.

The company's standalone capacity utilisation was 98pc during January-March compared with 93pc for the same period last year.

The increases led Brazil to reach a total 182,841MW in installed capacity.

Technology carrier Sumitomo Electric said that the 17MW/51MWh VRFB system it mounted to assist integrate regional wind power onto the grid has actually been in operation because 1 April after setup was finished a day earlier.

Nickel production in Russia was largely undisrupted in March despite the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, according to analytics platform Savant.

Over the past two years, Iran's steel industry has been developing, and has maintained tenth of the top steel producers in the world.

A bankable feasibility study (BFS) into ASX-listed Australian Vanadium’s namesake project, in Western Australia, has estimated a cost of $435-million to develop 24.7-million pound vanadium pentoxide and 900 00 t/y of iron-titanium.