In March, purchase of steel products in railway engineering continued to decrease

According to railway statistics, in March of the current year, direct deliveries of cast iron, rolled steel, pipes and semi-finished products to locomotive, car-repair and car production plants of Russia (including double-purpose enterprises and Russian Railways structures) made up 121.0 thousand tons.

This is by 19.7% less that the purchase in the previous month. At an annual rate, the reduction of the purchases made up 8.1%.