PRESS: Shishkaryov’s Delo ready to buy TransContainer

MOSCOW, Aug 25 (PRIME) -- Russian businessman Sergei Shishkaryov’s transport and logistics holding Delo Group is ready to buy 50% in container shipping company TransContainer from Russian Railways, as well as a 24.5% stake held by private pension fund Blagosostoyanie, Kommersant business daily reported Friday.

Delo Group is ready to buy TransContainer in case of its privatization, the daily said citing a letter of the group’s CEO Andrei Bubnov sent to First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov.

“The seller must decide on the strategy of the sale, we are ready to adjust to it and discuss options till the purchase of the combined stake of Russian Railways and Blagosostoyanie if they are sold as a single package,” a representative of the group said as cited by Kommersant.

United Transport Logistics Company of Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan owns 50% plus two shares in TransContainer, but Russian Railways earlier said it plans to get the stake back. Far Eastern Shipping Company (FESCO), part of Summa Group, owns 25.07%, and Blagosostoyanie has 24.5%.

In June, Shuvalov asked the Economic Development Ministry to prepare an analysis of a possible sale of 50% in TransContainer.

Businessman Vladimir Lisin’s UCL Holding said recently it was ready to get a controlling stake in TransContainer by buying part of shares from Russian Railways and Blagosostoyanie.

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