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.

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.

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

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 total of 948 million tons of cargo was transported on China's railways in the period, 25.87 million tons more than that in the same period last year, according to the company.