OREANDA-NEWS. February 18, 2014. ArcelorMittal (referred to as “ArcelorMittal” or the “Company”) (MT (New York, Amsterdam, Paris, Luxembourg), MTS (Madrid)), the world’s leading integrated steel and mining company, today announced results for the three and twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2013.

Highlights:
Health and safety performance improved in 2013 with an annual LTIF rate of 0.8x as compared to 1.0x in 2012

FY 2013 EBITDA of USD6.9 billion, a 10.7% improvement versus FY 2012 on an underlying basis

4Q 2013 EBITDA of USD 1.9 billion

FY 2013 net loss of USD 2.5 billion (including exceptional items totalling USD 1.5 billion

4Q 2013 net loss of USD 1.2 billion (including exceptional items totalling USD 1.3 billion

Free cash flow positive in FY 2013; USD 4.3 billion of cash flow from operations and capex of USD 3.5 billion

Net debt at year end of USD 16.1 billion, a decrease of  USD 5.7 billion during 2013

Pension/OPEB net obligations decreased by USD 2.6 billion during 2013

FY 2013 steel shipments of 84.3Mt (+0.6% YoY); 4Q 2013 steel shipments of 20.9Mt up (+4.4%) vs. 4Q 2012

FY 2013 iron ore shipments of 59.7Mt (+9.6% YoY), of which 35.1Mt shipped at market prices (+22% YoY)

USD 1.1 billion in annualized management gains achieved during 2013, in line with plan to achieve USD 3 billion of cost improvement by the end of 2015

Dividend maintained at USD 0.20/share, subject to shareholders’ approval

Key developments:
ArcelorMittal and Nippon Steel & Sumitomo JV have agreed to acquire 100% of ThyssenKrupp Steel USA for USD 1.55 billion

The ramp-up of expanded capacity at AMMC completed with run-rate of 24 Mt achieved by year-end 2013; Phase II expansion of Liberia from 4 Mtpa direct shipped ore ("DSO") to 15 Mtpa concentrate ongoing, with first concentrate production targeted by end of 2015