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Delo Group of Companies is transportlogistic a holding that manages marine container terminals in the Azov-Black Sea, Baltic and Far Eastern basins, a network of railway container terminals, a fleet of containers and fitting platforms.

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The Group's stevedoring business includes DeloPorts Holding and container terminal operator Global Ports. The transport and logistics direction is made up of the multimodal transport operator Ruskon and TransContainer, an intermodal container operator with the largest fleet of containers and fitting platforms throughout the 1520 railway network (data for November 2021).

Performance indicators

2023: Revenue growth by 6 times to 41.4 billion rubles

LLC Delo Management Company (the parent company of Delo Group of Companies) in 2023 earned 41.4 billion rubles in revenue, which is more than 6 times higher than a year ago. Net profit increased even more - 22 times, to 37.6 billion rubles. Such data on RAS were released in April 2024.

As Interfax writes with reference to the materials of the Delo Management Company, the company completed 2023 with long-term obligations in the amount of 36.9 billion rubles against 30.75 billion rubles a year earlier. The volume of borrowed funds amounted to 36.7 billion rubles (by the end of 2022 - 30.66 billion rubles). Short-term liabilities as of December 31, 2023 were measured at 10.8 billion rubles against 13.05 billion rubles a year earlier. In 2023, Delo Management Company allocated 36 billion rubles to pay dividends.

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According to the results of 2023, TransContainer, a member of Delo Group, had a revenue transportation volume of 2.18 million DFE (a conventional unit of measurement of the capacity of freight vehicles), which is 2.6% more than a year earlier. The main drivers were transportation in the import and domestic Russian directions. Their volumes increased by 10.1% (to 606 thousand DFE) and by 5.9% (up to 716 thousand DFE), respectively.

At the end of 2023, the NUTEP container terminal and the KSK grain terminal (both part of the Delo Group of Companies) set new records for transshipment volumes. NUTEP processed 602.5 thousand. DFE, which is 3.4% more than a year earlier, and KSK exported 8.2 million tons of grain (+ 37% compared to 2022).

As of the end of 2023, Delo Group of Companies operates marine container terminals in the Azov-Black Sea, Baltic and Far Eastern basins, a network of railway container terminals, a fleet of containers and fitting platforms.^[1]

Information technologies in the Delo group of companies

2022: Building a company to digitalize the business

On January 17, 2022, the Delo logistics holding registered a new company to digitalize its business. The established structure was called Delotech, according to data from the SPARK-Interfax system. Read more here.

2021: Presentation of the "Digitalization Strategy"

On November 23, 2021, at the TAdviser SummIT 2021 conference, the Delo Group of Companies presented the IT strategy "Digitalization Strategy." The plan was based on the goal of achieving leadership in efficiency, manufacturability and service quality through the use of advanced digital technologies. The achievement of this goal is planned through the solution of the main tasks of process automation, technical integration of the Group's assets and the transition to the next level of Digitalization, which includes the use of digital technologies to improve client services and improve operational efficiency.

The Digitalization Strategy is an integral and integral part of the Group's overall development strategy for the medium-term, to 2025, and long-term, to 2030, perspective. All planned projects and changes are structured into three key areas:

• "Automation" (to improve operational efficiency);
• "Integration" (in order to ensure the operation of assets among themselves and achieve synergies);
• "Data" (for creating digital products and services).

The implementation of the plan of each of the key areas will be supported by individual support:

• "Innovation" (application of innovative technologies and work with startups within the framework of hackathons and acceleration programs);
• "Digital DNA" (training of employees, instilling in them skills and motivation to work with high-tech digital products);
• "Cybersecurity" (stability and protection against information security threats).

The group, owning the largest transport assets Russia in and being a business structure with high social responsibility to society and state solving internal digitalization problems, fully links its goals with the goals of the digital transformation strategy of the transport industry. First of all, it is the creation (conjugation) of common standards, the establishment of a sustainable and standardized electronic exchange data within the Group's assets and with all participants in the transport industry.

At the same time, the Group, being a private structure, expects clarity and transparency of decisions made by the state in the field of activity under consideration, and its practical assistance where problems go beyond the competence of the business. Basically, this concerns international cooperation: measures of economic diplomacy, including assistance in coordinating acceptable norms of restrictive procedures on the way of international logistics chains, and solving issues in the field of direct digital exchange of necessary logistics and transport data with counterparties abroad, at the first stage - with neighboring states.

Commenting on the presentation of the Digitalization Strategy, Senior Vice President for Strategic Development and IT of Delo Management Company, the Group's parent company, Vladimir Bychkov noted: "In developing the Digitalization Strategy, we have pushed back from the ambitious goal set by the Delo Group development strategy to become a logistics champion, the leader of container logistics in the Eurasian space. In each of the segments of digitalization of our activities, the goal is to achieve leadership in efficiency, manufacturability and quality of service. Of course, they can only be achieved by a team of highly professional and motivated employees. For this reason, with the idea of ​ ​ a digitalization strategy, we seek to change not only IT systems, but also personnel, because we are absolutely sure that technologies themselves have less value in comparison with a trained professional who is armed with them. "

History

2024: Global Ports share increases to 91.26%

Delo Group of Companies increased its share in the largest container terminal operator in the Russian Federation Global Ports by almost 50% - 91.26%. Sergei Shishkarev, the main owner of the Delo HZ, spoke about this in mid-April 2024. Read more here.

2023

Appointment of Ekaterina Lyakhova as General Director

In November 2023, Ekaterina Lyakhova headed Delo, Russia's largest transport and logistics holding. She will also retain the position of Director of Business Development at Rosatom. Read more here.

Delo Group and the Chinese Port Group created a joint venture to develop IT solutions in logistics

Delo Group and Shandong Port Group (SPG) have agreed to create a joint venture (JV) that will implement transport and logistics projects in Russia and China. The agreements were reached following negotiations between the chairman of the board of directors of the group Sergey Shishkarev and the chairman of SPG Huo Gaoyuan. This agreement was announced at the end of March 2023. Read more here.

2022

Maersk sells 30.75% in Global Ports to Sergey Shishkarev's Delo group

In August 2022, the Danish Maersk agreed to sell its last and largest asset in Russia - a 30.75% stake in Global Ports - to Sergei Shishkarev's Delo group.

Purchase of Sakhalin Shipping Company

Delo Group of Companies bought the Sakhalin Shipping Company (SASCO), the largest cargo carrier in the Far East. The fact that this deal was closed was announced on August 16, 2022. Go in detail

2021: Creation of the insurance company "Ruskon Insurance"

In January 2021, it became known about the creation of an insurance company by the largest transport and logistics holding "Delo" in Russia (founder and general director - businessman Sergei Shishkarev). Read more here.