Poland Scrap Traders Replace Turkish Market With Exports To India

Exports to Bangladesh increased 158% to 144,326t, while shipments to India witnessed an unusually significant increase, from 56,364t to 236,225t.

Nevertheless, shipments to Pakistan decreased by 25% to 137,132t.

Turkey, historically the greatest destination for scrap exports, had a two-thirds decrease to 176,742t.

Nevertheless, the overall volume of Poland scrap exports fell 22% to 2.09 million tonnes during January to November 2022.

Polish coking coal exports, meanwhile, fell 39% to 1.67 million tons between January and November 2022, as a result of halved shipments to Ukraine and about 500,000 tons less shipped to the Czech Republic.

Polish crude steel production decreased by 8% on-year to 7.16 mt in the last 11 months, according to worldsteel data.