Steel Mills
March 18, 2016
Service Center Intake, Shipments and Inventory through February 2016
Written by Peter Wright
Based on Steel Market Update (SMU) analysis of the recently released MSCI service center inventory and shipment data, total service center carbon steel shipments increased by 125,500 tons in February to 3.034 million tons. Shipping days at 21, were up by one from January. On a tons per day basis (t/d) shipments decreased from 145,400 tons in January to 144,500 tons in February. In the eight years since and including 2009, February shipments on average on a t/d basis have been down by 0.8 percent from January, this year shipments were down by 0.6 percent.
