Indian state-run steel maker RINL has shut down two blast furnaces at its Visakhapatnam plant.

The Vietnam Steel Association (VSA)’s member enterprises suffered a strong reduction in production and business in the first quarter of this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Work on four projects along the North-South railway will begin in May and June, according to the Transport Engineering Construction and Quality Management Bureau.

Indonesia’s manufacturing industry kept positive growth at 10.11 percent in the first quarter of 2020 amid the pressure caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Those products enjoyed high export revenues in 2019.

BHP is one of the world's largest exporters of iron ore and hard coking coal. It also ships thermal coal and copper.

Overall Russian coal output fell in the first quarter of this year, but some coking coal mining firms raised output.

The company did not provide a new figure. The guidance was previously revised downwards from an initial 10mn t.