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Shareholders Appoint New CEO of Moby Dik
Pursuant to the shareholders resolution Valery Mestulov was appointed to serve as a new CEO of Moby Dik LLC (a Global Ports group entity). As of July 1, 2010 Mr. Mestulov will replace Dirk van Assendelft who has headed the company since the commissioning of the container terminal.
Valery Evgenievich Mestulov was born in 1959 in the Voronezh Region. He worked at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant for more than 12 years, where he also held senior executive positions. Since 2001 he served as Deputy General Director of OJSC Vostochny Port. In 2004 Mr. Mestulov was appointed General Director of LLC Vostochanaya Stevedoring Company. From 2006 to 2008 he was the senior executive officer of LLC Vladivostok Container Terminal. Prior to his appointment as CEO of Moby Dik LLC, he focused on the development strategy of N-Trans group's inland terminals.
Married with three children.
July 1, 2010
Background
LLC Moby Dik is a container terminal in the city of Kronstadt (Kotlin island), a Global Ports group entity. The terminal was commissioned in 2002. Located in the immediate proximity to Saint Petersburg and the key cargo traffic flows. The planned capacity of the terminal is 500,000 TEU. The terminal is owned by Global Ports, a large Russian ports operator, and Container Finance Group, a Finnish corporation.
Global Ports Investments Plc (GPI) is a group of Russia's leading container terminal operators. It is part of N-Trans group, the largest private transportation operator in Russia, CIS and the Baltic countries. The GPI's terminals are located in the Baltic and the Far East basins. GPI operates three container terminals in Russia (Petrolesport, Moby Dik in St. Petersburg and Vostochanaya Stevedoring Company in the Vostochny Port) and two container terminals in Finland (Multi-Link Terminals Oy in Helsinki and Kotka). GPI is now also developing an inland terminal Yanino near Saint Petersburg. For more information please see: www.globalports.com