Ikusasa lensimbi yaseShayina lifinyelele ezingeni eliphezulu ngoLwesine ngaphambi kwamaholide oNyaka oMusha, kanti insimbi yehle ngemuva kokuthuthuka kwezinsuku ezintathu okubangelwe ukuphazamiseka kokutholakala kwensimbi evela esikhungweni sokuthumela ngaphandle saseRio Tinto e-Australia.

I-rebar kaMay ethengiswa kakhulu kwi-Shanghai Futures Exchange ikhuphuke ngamaphesenti angu-0.8 ku-3,554 yuan ($526.50) ngethani ngo-0229 GMT. I-hot rolled coil yayiku-3,452 yuan, ikhuphuke ngamaphesenti angu-0.8.

“Ukuhweba kuya ngokuya kuncipha kuleli sonto ngaphambi kwamaholide oNyaka Omusha waseShayina (ekuqaleni kukaFebhuwari),” kusho umhwebi oseShanghai. “Angicabangi ukuthi kuzoba noshintsho olukhulu emakethe, ikakhulukazi kusukela ngesonto elizayo.”

Okwamanje, amanani cishe azohlala emazingeni amanje, kungekho sidingo esengeziwe sensimbi esilindelekile kuze kube ngemva kwamaholide, kusho umhwebi.

Nakuba kube nokusekelwa kokuthengwa kwensimbi kusukela ekuqaleni konyaka ngethemba lokuthi izinyathelo zaseShayina zokukhuthaza umnotho wayo ohamba kancane zizokhulisa isidingo, ingcindezi yokunikezwa ngokweqile iyaqhubeka.

Inhlangano yensimbi nensimbi yezwe ithe kusukela ngo-2016, umenzi wensimbi omkhulu kunabo bonke emhlabeni uqede cishe amathani ayizigidi ezingu-300 omthamo wokukhiqiza insimbi osephelelwe yisikhathi kanye nomthamo wensimbi ophansi, kodwa kusasele amathani angaba yizigidi ezingu-908.

Amanani okwenza insimbi izinto zokusetshenziswa, i-iron ore kanye namalahle okupheka, ehle kakhulu ngemuva kokukhula kwamuva.

I-iron ore ethengiswa kakhulu, yokulethwa ngoMeyi, i-Xian avisen import and export ltd,i-stee engagqwaliI-1 coil tube, eDalian Commodity Exchange, yehle ngamaphesenti angu-0.7 ku-509 yuan ngethani, ngemuva kokwenyuka ngamaphesenti angu-0.9 ezifundweni ezintathu ezedlule phakathi kwezinkinga eziqhubekayo ezihlobene nokunikezwa.

“Umthelela wokuphazamiseka eCape Lambert (isiteshi sokuthumela impahla kwamanye amazwe), esivalwe kancane yiRio Tinto ngenxa yomlilo, uyaqhubeka nokugcina abahwebi bekhathazekile,” kusho i-ANZ Research encwadini.

I-Rio Tinto ithe ngoMsombuluko imemezele ukuthi ithumela insimbi kwamanye amakhasimende ngenkani ngenxa yomlilo ngesonto eledlule.

Amalahle okupheka ehla ngamaphesenti angu-0.3 afinyelela ku-1,227.5 yuan ngethani, kanti i-coke ikhuphuke ngamaphesenti angu-0.4 ku-2,029 yuan.

I-Spot iron ore yokulethwa eShayina i-SH-CCN-IRNOR62 ibizinzile ku-$74.80 ngethani ngoLwesithathu, ngokusho kwe-SteelHome consultancy.