IME weekly trade nears $791m
The Iran Mercantile Exchange (IME) announced that over 3.16 million tons of commodities, worth nearly $791 million, were traded in its domestic trading and export halls in the week closing on May 19.
A total of 2.62 million tons of various products, worth over $560 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 658,173 tons of steel, 536,000 tons of iron ore, 184,000 tons of sponge iron, 5,050 tons of copper, 1,710 tons of zinc, 200 tons of molybdenum concentrate, 7,695 tons of aluminum ingots, and 500 vehicles as well as 1.27 million tons of cement.
In addition, 443,453 tons of various commodities, valued at about $205 million, were traded at IME’s domestic and export oil and petrochemical trading halls.
Other traded items were 95,560 tons of polymeric products, 100,000 tons of vacuum bottom, 66,000 tons of lube cut, 42,418 tons of chemical products, 18,920 tons of sulfur, 3,057 tons of base oil, 100 tons of insulation, 107,989 tons of petroleum products and 118,437 tons of bitumen.