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“Russian Railways” JSC is one of the largest rail companies in the world with huge volumes of passenger and freight transportation. The company has high ratings, qualified specialists in all the spheres of the rail business, extensive scientific and technological basis, project and construction foacilities, experience in international cooperation. 100% of the stock of the company operating the railways network as long as 85,5 thousand kilometers belongs to the RF state. Russian Railways, OAO performs the transportation of 1,3 bln passengers and 1,3 bln tons of freight annually.
Russian Railways, JSC belongs to the top 3 of the leaders of the rail industry of the world.
The major objectives of the company – to ensure the demand opf the state, legal units and the people in rail transportation, work and services rendered by the rail transport, as well as bringing profit.
Strategic objectives of the Company:

• Increasing the scale of the transport business;
• Increasing the production and economic efficiency;
• Increasing the quality and safety of transportation;
• Deep integration into the Euro-Asian transport system;
• Increasing financial stability and efficiency.

Moscow River Shipping Company is one the leading enterprises working in the field of inland water transportation of passengers and freight in the Russian Federation.
Moscow River Shipping Company’s fleet includes 150 cargo ships, more than 20 passenger vessels, as well as overload and extractive equipment.

CJSC "OILSERVICE"

FSUE "Rosmorport" is among the biggest Russian companies in the sphere of sea transport by the volume of supplied works and services.

Main activities:

• Provision of efficient usage of the federal property in the seaports.
• Implementation of repairs, modernization and new building of hydrotechnical constructions, transport technological transshipment complexes, other port infrastructure facilities; dredging works and formation of navigational canals.
• Provides functioning, carries out modernization and new building of navigation safety systems.
• Maintains, carries out new building, operation, repairs and acquisition of ships and other floating vessels.
• Renders all types of services to ships on approach and in the water area of the seaports on their safe navigation, maneuvering and mooring.

Open joint-stock company Insurance Company Rostra (Rostra) was founded in 2000 as a universal Russian insurance company offering services to both legal entities and individuals.
Rostra is on the top 30 list of Russia’s largest insurance companies (based on the volume of premiums collected in the first 6 months of 2009 in direct insurance segment, apart from mandatory health insurance and life insurance, including data with respect to company groups).
Rostra is licensed for all types of insurance in accordance with the RF legislation and is offering its clients over 100 insurance products.
Rostra’s authorized capital comprises one billion rubles. Collections of premiums in the first 6 months of 2009 amounted to over 1.6 bln rubles.
Today Rostra has 48 branches and 120 separate subdivisions across Russia and continues expanding its presence in the region.
Our company’s flawless business reputation is appreciated by independent experts – in 2009 the National rating agency confirmed Rostra’s  class A reliability rating. In 2008 Rostra was awarded the Golden Salamander prize in the nomination “For branch network development”. Rostra also won the “Best company of the year 2009” prize and holds the  honorary title “Socially responsible enterprise” awarded by the Foundation for promoting entrepreneurship in 2009. Rostra’s stability is ensured by the large amount of own funds, high-quality reinsurance protection and the experience and professional skills of our employees.
Rostra is member of the following professional unions and associations: All-Russian Union of Insurers, Russian Union of Constructors, Russian Union of Vehicle Insurers, Russian Constructors’ Association, Russian association of aviation and space insurers and others. 

Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port PJSC (NCSP) is Russia's largest stevedore and port operator. NCSP's turnover amounted to 81,6 million tonnes in 2008. NCSP operates in the port of Novorossiysk, a multi-functional, deep-water port ensuring a year-round navigation in the Black Sea.  

The “USK MOST” Construction Company  is a major association of 15 specialized enterprises. It has unique experience in building railroad and highway bridges, tunnels, hydro-technical installation, industrial and civilian-purpose facilities. The Company has developed its own unique method of overhauling bridges without taking them out of operation.

State Corporation "Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank)" was established in 2007 by means of reorganization of the Bank for Foreign Economic Affairs of the USSR (Vnesheconombank of the USSR).
Vnesheconombank acts to promote competitiveness of the Russian Federation economy, its diversification and to encourage investment activity through investment, foreign economic activities, export credit insurance and consultancy.
Vnesheconombank is viewed as a key instrument for implementing the state economic policy that is primarily focused on removing infrastructure restrictions on economic growth, enhancing the efficiency of natural resources utilization, developing high-tech industries, unleashing innovative and industrial potential of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), as well as ensuring support for exports of industrial production and services.
In the circumstances of a global financial meltdown, Vnesheconombank is authorised to extend loans to cash-strapped Russian companies and banks to refinance obligations towards foreign creditors and to extend subordinated unsecured loans to Russian financial institutions in accordance with Federal Law of the Russian Federation № 173-FZ "On Additional Measures for Supporting the Financial System of the Russian Federation" and also to support Russian stock market through purchasing Russian securities. 

Aeroflot is based in Moscow, in the Sheremetyevo International Airport. As Russia’s largest carrier, the company flew 9.3 million passengers in 2008, together with its subsidiaries, 11.6 million passengers. Aeroflot operates its own flights to 95 destinations in 48 countries. It accounts for over 42% of Russia’s scheduled international traffic. The company strives to enhance its share of domestic traffic, which now is 13.7% (with its subsidiaries, around 20%).
Aeroflot is a member of SkyTeam, a global airline alliance. Aeroflot provides its customers with an access to a route network of 928 destinations in 174 countries (more info is available on our website www.skyteam.com). Aeroflot operates code-sharing agreements with 29 foreign and Russian airline companies.
Aeroflot has one of Europe’s youngest air fleets that consists of 106 aircrafts, about two thirds are state-of-the-art airliners. The air fleet is regularly replenished. The company plans to receive the new generation Russian airplanes Sukhoi SuperJet-100.
Aeroflot complies with the highest international safety standards. Following the results of the International Air Transport Association’s Operational Safety Audit (IOSA), the company was the first Russian carrier to be included in the IOSA Registry. In 2009, Aeroflot has confirmed the certificate for the third time and also successfully completed the ISAGO (IATA Safety Audit for Ground Operations) procedure. In March 2008, the company’s Quality Management System was certified as complying with ISO 9001:2000.

Mostovik Research and Engineering Ltd. is one of the biggest construction companies in Russia. Company performs full cycle contracting: from research, design,
coordination of design documentation to construction and installation works
and commissioning of the objects.
The project record of the company includes more than 350 different-purposes
facilities in Russia and abroad for transport, special, industrial and civil use in major projects on both domestic and international levels.
Mostovik Ltd. organization structure includes: design, construction and assembly departments, steel manufacturing plant equipped with the state-of-the-art machinery with a unique technological complex for Russia, allowing design with precision
engineering, factories, concrete plant, division of mechanization
(more than 550 units of special equipment), repair-mechanical plant, special cranes manufacturing plant (capacity up to 300 m), road division and other support units.

Our activities:

• Transport facilities (motorway, urban, pedestrian bridges and overpasses);
• Underground railway facilities (overground and underground subways);
• Special-purpose underground facilities;
• Construction of industrial and civil use;
• oil and gas facilities
  

The lifetime of the JSC «MDS-GROUP» started in 1998, when a small engineering enterprise ZAO (closed joint-stock company) «Aerodromstroy» was founded. Within eleven years the firm has transformed into a large industrial holding company engaged in a complete set of designing, construction, reconstruction and maintenance of motor roads, aerodromes and engineering facilities.  According to the «Expert» magazine data in 2009 ZAO «MDS-GROUP» is ranking among the 400 Russian largest companies.
The holding company is considerably experienced in construction and repairing activities in the Russian airports. In 2009 the company specialists carried out reconstruction of aerodrome complexes in the cities of Voronezh, Kirov, Nizhnevartovsk, Omsk, Magadan, Murmansk, Elista. The company was also engaged in designing and construction of the international airport «Koltsovo» (Ekaterinburg). Regardless of the crisis period difficulties the builders completed in time the large scale reconstruction of the first runway, the renovation of the second artificial runway is scheduled for the next year.
The company is keeping on the development of such activities as construction and repair of motor roads: they are carried out in Yaroslavl, Dubna, Tyumen, Ishim and some sections of the federal routes.

“ОТEKO” was incorporated in 2002. The company was formed to increase the quality of transport services offered to its clients by combining the intellectual capital of Russkiy Mir and SFAT and by using advance management techniques: leasing of rolling stock; forwarding services; railcar maintenance; information tracking of rail transportation. The operation of the company is based on the principles of quality, reliability, dynamic internal development and a transparent approach to conducting its business affairs. Today OTEKO is a company with a diversified range of business lines, including: transportation of oil freight; forwarding services; rail car maintenance; organisation of transshipment within sea ports; investments in various business lines. The major investment project of OTEKO today is the construction of the largest reloading terminal complex of liquefied hydrocarbons at port of Taman in Krasnodar region. The construction is performed by Tamanneftegas, JSC. Today the Russian seaports have no terminals on transfer LPG. Joint-Stock Company «Tamanneftegas» builds the terminal for export to create the reliable and economic mechanism for the south of Russia and region of Caspian Sea. Our company has reliable technical decisions for building and has manufactured effective marketing research of the market, for the purpose of rendering of services to our clients in the future. The planned volume of transfer of products will make 10,5 million tons a year.

LUKOIL is one of the major international vertically integrated oil & gas companies. The main activities of the Company are exploration and production of oil and gas, production and marketing of petroleum products, petrochemicals and electric power. The holding incorporates more than 300 companies in 35 countries of the world.

JSC TransCreditBank (general license #2142 issued by the Bank оf Russia) is the leading bank in Russia’s transport industry and a strategic partner of JSC Russian Railways. The largest shareholders are JSC Russian Railways (55% of shares) and Non-governmental pension fund Blagosostoyaniye (20% of shares). The Bank’s customer base includes companies from all segments of the transport industry, other sectors of real economy and nearly two million individuals.

Joint Stock Company «Mostotrest» (JSC «Mostotrest») specializing in construction of out-of class and large bridges was founded in 1930.
The status of joint stock company was given in 1992.
The number of employees is 13 300.

OAO Sovcomflot is Russia’s largest shipping company and one of the world’s leaders in energy transportation.
At present the Group’s fleet comprises 143 vessels of an aggregate deadweight of more than 10 million tonnes. The average age of the tanker fleet is 6 years – one of the youngest in the world shipping.
The current shipbuilding portfolio comprises 19 vessels of an aggregate 1, 7 million tonnes dwt.
SCF Group is a fully integrated shipping company, specialising in the seaborne transportation of energy and is owner of the world’s largest ice-fleet.
SCF Group’s extensive fleet of various vessels; leading positions in  market segments which are most demanded by Russia’s oil and gas majors; in-house technical research and the use of advanced technologies, unique for a shipping company, allow it to meet customers’ highest expectations, while also offering them stable business conditions and the opportunity for reliable profits.

Moscow Sheremetyevo international airport is the largest Russian airport by international scheduled traffic. More than 15 mln passengers used the airport’s services in 2008. In 2009 the strategic master-plan of the airport development for the period up to 2030 was adopted including the new Runway 3. Sheremetyevo intends to become the leading hub in passenger and airlines services quality. In 2010 the new terminals D and E will be set in operation. The South Terminal Complex capacity will be 25 million passengers per year. It is also planned to create the North Terminal Complex with the capacity of 45 million passengers per year by 2030. For these purposes the Terminals A and B as well as new passenger tunnels, two satellites connected with the Terminals by underground passages, railway station, multi-level parking, hotel and business complexes will be constructed. The South and the North Terminal Complexes will be connected by the underground automated transport system.

LLC “ENGTRANSSTROY CORPORATION” is engaged in designing, construction and reconstruction of railways, roads, bridges, tunnels, aerodromes as well as marine, river, hydraulic, industrial facilities and buildings of social and cultural significance. The Corporation also performs works on historical and cultural monuments renovation. The Corporation has at its disposal considerable manpower and technical and material resources almost everywhere in the Russian Federation.
The General Director of the Corporation is Efim Vladimirovich BASIN. Efim Vladimirovich BASIN is Hero of Socialist Labor, Laureate of state prize of the Russian Federation, Honored Builder of the Russian Federation.
Highly skilled engineers, technicians and labor force allow to execute large-scale investment projects starting from the survey and design stages to the turn-key commissioning. The main corporate strategy is based on excellent quality, reasonable prices and meeting of deadlines. It all is provided by high-efficiency methods of work, modern equipment, machines, mechanisms, implementation of advanced design and construction technologies.

FESCO Transportation Group – Russia’s leading intermodal transportation and logistics company, offering clients a full range of integrated “door-to-door” services and logistical solutions. In 2008 FESCO maintained the leadership in the container segment, with the total amount of container operations by all companies of the group exceeding 2.4 mln. TEUs. 

BaltTransServis, Ltd was established in 1999 in St.-Petersburg as a part of holding company "N-Trance". BaltTransServis, Ltd is one of the largest private operator-companies specializing on bulk-oil cargo railroad transportation in Russia, the CIS and Baltic countries. BaltTransServis, Ltd has 1 branch – car-repair depot in Ivanovo and 8 representative offices in Moscow, Ryazan, Yaroslavl, Voronezh, Samara, Murmansk, Kaliningrad and Dno.

Globaltrans is the largest private freight rail operator group in Russia by the size of owned rolling stock fleet (based on publicly available information, as of end 2008).
Globaltrans Investment PLC has operating subsidiaries in Russia, Ukraine and Estonia: OAO New Forwarding Company, OOO Sevtekhnotrans, Ukrainian New Forwarding Company LLC, AS Spacecom, and AS Intopex Trans.
Group provides freight rail transportation, railcar leasing, and associated services to large industrial and medium sized corporate customers. It carries customers’ cargos to more than 25,000 destinations in Russia and Ukraine. Globaltrans’ rolling stock fleet amounted to 26,347 railcars as of 30 June 2009.
Globaltrans is a member of N-Trans group of companies. N-Trans group is the largest private operator in the transportation services market in Russia, CIS and Baltic states.
Globaltrans’ global depositary receipts are listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange since May 2008.

The Company performs full complex of works connected with building and reconstruction of motor roads of any technical category, may construct different engineering and hydraulic structures and also performs works connected with construction of oil and gas fields on requests from enterprises of oil and gas industry.
At present company’s divisions have more than 1500 units of road building machines, devices, special motor transport.
The Company includes 15 structural divisions, average staff number 3100 thousands of people.
OJSC “RBC “AVTOBAN” has an opportunity to build and reconstruct annually more than 180 km of motor roads with capital type of pavement including highways of the first technical category, produce nearly 1 mln tons of asphalt and concrete mixture.
Quality management system successfully operating in the company which complies with modern requirements GOST R ISO 9001-2008 that is confirmed by Certificates in the certification system GOST R and International Certificates IQ NET and Quality Austria.

ANCOR Holding is the largest professional search and staffing services company in Russia and the other CIS countries. ANCOR has been operating in the field of recruitment and HR consulting since 1990 and has acquired a deserved reputation as a leader of the business niche.
Today ANCOR renders a wide range of staffing services for companies, which operate in all business spheres. Our services are: professional search and selection, express recruitment, personnel assessment, labour market & salary surveys; outstaffing, temporary staffing, staff leasing, large-scale projects, payroll services, also outplacement.
Our network includes over 40 offices: in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan

The Association of International Motor Hauliers is one of the most powerful professional associations and deserved deep respect worldwide. ASMAP activities and its close cooperation with the Government of the Russian Federation, the State Duma and the Federation Council, the Ministry of transport, the Federal customs service, the Commercial and industrial chamber of the Russian Federation, plenipotentiaries of the President of the Russian Federation, administrations of subjects of the Russian Federation, etc. demonstrate a fine example of meaningful dialogue between business and power.
The ASMAP mission is to protect interests of the Russian international motor hauliers and the national market of transport services, secure favorable conditions for intensive development of the national market of transportations and increase of competitiveness of the Russian motor hauliers. The association renders services now to over 5,000 enterprises and organizations.

CREDO-DIALOGUE has developed, distributed, and introduced CREDO software products for processing of data obtained from engineering surveys, digital terrain modeling, designing of transportation, industrial, civil construction objects, and solution of other engineering tasks since 1989. Over 6,500 engineering organizations in all CIS countries and abroad use CREDO technologies.

The company’s infrastructure includes headquarters in Minsk, representative offices in Moscow, Ekatherinburg, Krasnoyarsk, and Khabarovsk, as well as 12 regional training and introductory centers.