Ukrainian Journal citing Mr Andriy Fedoseyev president of Ukrainian Metal Traders Association reported that Ukrainian metal traders have increased sales by 45.1%YoY to 2.181 million tonnes in the first nine months of 2007.

As per report the leading traders are the Metinvest group's Leman Ukraine with 302,037 tonnes; Industrial Union of Donbas with 221,483 tonnes; Zaporizhstal related MD Group & Zaporizhmetall holding with respectively 143,059 tonnes ad 57,980 tonnes, independent traders Komex with 135,518 tonnes, Vikant with 81,842 tonnes, Transagency with 63,184 tonnes and Kaskad with 47,797 tonnes.