Henan steel market speeds up recovery
Jul. 27, 2021
In recent days, Henan Province has continued to experience heavy rainfall, severe waterlogging has occurred in many cities in the province, some rivers have exceeded the warning water level, individual reservoirs have broken dams, some railways have been shut down and flights have been cancelled, resulting in heavy casualties and property losses, and the flood control situation is grim. The reporter learned that as of July 25, the heavy rainfall weather in Henan Province had affected nearly 11.45 million people, which had a great impact on Residents' life and industrial production.
Among the steel enterprises in Henan Province, Angang was greatly affected by the rainstorm. However, Anyang City, where Anyang steel is located, has turned sunny. Up to now, Angang has resumed the production of "three furnaces and three machines".
In this storm, due to the high terrain of the plant area, the iron and steel production in Jiyuan, Henan Province is basically not affected. Du Yuzhu, general manager of Henan Jiyuan Iron and steel sales company, told reporters: "in addition to benefiting from the high terrain, mang River, a tributary of the Yellow River, also crosses the Jiyuan Iron and steel plant. Flood discharge is basically no problem. The impact of the rainstorm on the enterprise is mainly concentrated on the logistics side, but it has been fully recovered."
Du Yuzhu said that the rainstorm a few days ago once affected about 30% of the automobile traffic and about 20% of the iron traffic of Jiyuan Iron and steel. In terms of automobile transportation, affected by the shutdown of expressway, the outward transportation volume of Jiyuan Iron and steel is about 1 / 3 lower than that of daily transportation; In terms of railway transportation, Jiyuan Iron and steel had a special train with more than 60 carriages, and the goods could not be shipped due to the railway outage at that time.
According to Du Yuzhu, in addition to the impact of heavy rainfall on the logistics end in Henan Province, heavy rainfall in Shanxi also has an impact on the raw fuel supply of enterprises. The reporter learned that the emergency headquarters of major meteorological disasters in Shanxi Province decided to enter the level III emergency response of Rainstorm in Shanxi Province from 14:00 on July 20. Although up to now, high-temperature weather has reoccupied Shanxi, according to the prediction of Shanxi Meteorological Bureau, there will still be moderate to heavy rain in some parts of the central and southern part of the province this week, accompanied by thunderstorms, strong winds, short-term heavy rainfall and other strong convective weather.
"Jiyuan Iron and steel has more than 100000 tons of reserve mineral powder in the port. A few days ago, it was also affected by the railway outage and was unable to enter Henan Province, but it has recovered as usual." Du Yuzhu said.
The relevant person in charge of Hegang Wugang said that Wugang was not greatly affected by the rainstorm because it was more than 200 kilometers away from Zhengzhou.
Under the influence of this round of heavy rainfall, the supply and demand of Henan steel city once stagnated. Wang Guoqing, director of Lange Iron and Steel Research Center, told reporters that the flood in Henan Province will weaken the supply and demand of the regional market. In the short term, the regional market will be weak, but the start of post disaster reconstruction, water conservancy construction and other projects will drive the recovery of demand in Henan, so as to drive the transactions in the regional market back to an active state. After the rainstorm, it will take some time to dredge the urban waterlogging and restore industrial production. With the light rain turning sunny in some cities, Henan steel city will also accelerate the recovery.