60% Growth in 9 month Physical Transactions of IME since March

During first 9 months of the Iranian calendar year of 1392 beginning from March 20, 2013, around 17.7 million tons of commodities were traded with 309000 billion IRR in value which shows 19 and 60 percent increase in volume and value respectively compared with the same period last year.

During this period the industrial trading floor of IME traded 9.8 million tons of commodities worth of 161 thousand billion IRR in both domestic and export markets which has increased 12 and 30 percent in terms of volume and value.

During the mentioned period, 7.1 million tons of steel products, 2.2 million metric tons of iron ore, 0.316 million tons of copper, 0.142 million tons of aluminum, 50 thousand MT of metallurgical coke and around 5000 tons of other metals and 27 kg of gold bullion were traded in IME.