According to a report by the IME's International Affairs and PR, there were 10,000 tonnes of steel blooms, 5,600 tonnes of galvanized steel sheets for auto-makers, 3,496 tonnes of I-beams and 1,095 tonnes of U-channels sold on the same floor.

Based on this report, customers purchased 5,000 tonnes of vacuum bottom and 80,000 tonnes of iron ore concentrate on the IME's open auction trading floor.

IME's oil and petrochemical trading floor saw trade of 106,100 tonnes of vacuum bottom, 17,700 tonnes of chemicals, 4,131 tonnes of polymeric products, 70 tonnes of argon and 52 tonnes of PDA TAR.

Furthermore, the exchange played host to trading 34,900 tonnes of bitumen on its export ring.

Last was the IME's side market which saw trade of 2,727 tonnes of steel belts, anhydride phthalic, car tires, coil rebars and glass wool.