IME weekly trade tops $691m
The Iran Mercantile Exchange (IME) announced that over 3.07 million tons of commodities, worth over $691 million, were traded in its domestic trading and export halls in the week closing on May 5.
A total of 2.6 million tons of various products, worth over $454 million, were traded at IME’s domestic and export metal and mineral trading hall, reported ime.gov.ir on Saturday.
Among the traded products were 379,188 tons of steel, 890,000 tons of iron ore, 129,500 tons of sponge iron, 8,205 tons of copper, 740 tons of zinc, 230 tons of molybdenum concentrate, 6,325 tons of aluminum ingots, 60 tons of precious metals concentrate and 475 vehicles as well as 1.19 million tons of cement.
In addition, 452,585 tons of various commodities, valued at about $226 million, were traded at IME’s domestic and export oil and petrochemical trading halls.
Other traded items were 107,989 tons of polymeric products, 78,000 tons of vacuum bottom, 46,000 tons of lube cut, 38,358 tons of chemical products, 8,120 tons of sulfur, 6,219 tons of base oil, 470 tons of insulation, 8,732 tons of petroleum products and 158,164 tons of bitumen.