IME weekly trade exceeds $628m
The Iran Mercantile Exchange (IME) announced that over 2.95 million tons of commodities, worth over $628 million, were traded in its domestic trading and export halls in the week closing on May 12.
A total of 2.52 million tons of various products, worth over $427 million, were traded at IME’s domestic and export metal and mineral trading hall, reported ime.co.ir on Saturday.
Among the traded products were 372,507 tons of steel, 754,000 tons of iron ore, 131,000 tons of sponge iron, 7,025 tons of copper, 780 tons of zinc, 200 tons of molybdenum concentrate, 7,415 tons of aluminum ingots, 2,000 tons of coke and 100 vehicles as well as 1.24 million tons of cement.
In addition, 428,994 tons of various commodities, valued at about $196 million, were traded at IME’s domestic and export oil and petrochemical trading halls.
Other traded items were 97,858 tons of polymeric products, 133,000 tons of vacuum bottom, 19,000 tons of lube cut, 39,388 tons of chemical products, 9,000 tons of sulfur, 3,466 tons of base oil, 900 tons of insulation, 500 tons of petroleum products, 110 tons of gas feedstocks and 127,752 tons of bitumen.