Yevgeny Khokhlov

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    The Moldova Steel Works was stopped on the 12th of April this year. It seems to be the first case in the modern steel industry when production is closed down not because of market crisis or worn-out facilities but along of «economic blockade».
    All problems are due to politics
    Moldova Steel Works JSC has state-of-the art technologies. In 2005 the works made 1,048,000 t o steel and 889,000 t of rolled products. The works has a very profitable geographic location – not far from the new borders of the expanding European Union, with a convenient entrance to markets. A railway branch and a highway connect it to the nearest port of Odessa on the Black Sea which is at a distance of 200...

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