Among the qualifying conditions announced earlier this month is the bizarrely precise one that any biddermust have produced at least 1m tonnes of coke and 2m tonnes of rolled steel in Ukraine for the past three years, two of them profitably.
It's a savvy strategy, because under FCC rules, if the regional bids top the bids for the C block, that block must be split up and apportioned to the highest bidder or bidders.