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2025: Fesco bought Kaliningrad Sea Fishing Port
The Fesco Transport Group acquired the company operating the Kaliningrad Sea Fishing Port terminal. The Group purchased a 100% stake in JSC CITY Group, which owns the port's real estate on long-term lease until 2070. This was announced by the company on June 3, 2025.
According to Interfax, the deal also includes the acquisition of the operator of the marine terminal - LLC UK Portovaya Infrastructure. The parent company of the Fesco group is PJSC Far Eastern Shipping Company. Fesco did not disclose the amount of the transaction.
Petr Ivanov, head of the Fesco transport group, noted that the entry of the Kaliningrad sea fishing port into the company is the first step to qualitatively strengthen logistics and port opportunities in the Kaliningrad region. He stressed that Fesco has a rich and successful experience in managing the largest universal terminal in the Far East - the Vladivostok Commercial Sea Port.
Petr Ivanov said that the main task is to develop the Kaliningrad transport hub together with the state corporation Rosatom. The company plans to ensure the logistics availability of the westernmost region of Russia. Fesco is located in the management loop of Rosatom State Corporation.
Kaliningrad Sea Fishing Port specializes in working with general, bulk, bulk and food cargoes. The capacity of the terminal is 2.2 million tons per year. The port is capable of transshipment of all types of frozen products with a volume of up to 100 thousand tons per year.
The port's loading terminal has a capacity of up to 420 thousand tons per year. The total area of the territory is 34.1 hectares. The terminal has the necessary infrastructure for handling various types of cargo.[1]
2023
The court seized 51.75% of the shares of the Kaliningrad Commercial Sea Port from the deputy of United Russia and ordered him to pay 369 million rubles
In July 2023, the Central District Court of Kaliningrad seized from the State Duma deputy from United Russia Andrei Kolesnik and his family 51.75% of the shares of the Kaliningrad Commercial Sea Port (KMTP) in state revenue. As Vedomosti writes with reference to the statement of claim of the Prosecutor General's Office, Kolesnik violated the requirements of anti-corruption legislation: he illegally acquired and secretly owned KMTP shares, illegally conducted commercial activities to manage the port and was illegally enriched. Read more here.
Recovery by the state of 46.5% of the shares of the port
The Arbitration Court of the Kaliningrad Region recovered from the state illegally acquired 46.5% of the shares of Kaliningrad Commercial Sea Port JSC (KMTP, one of the largest stevedores in the port of Kaliningrad) at the suit of the Prosecutor General's Office and the FAS. This was announced on May 15, 2023 by Interfax with reference to the decision of the court.
 | The illegal acquisition of shares of the strategic enterprise by Orneto Partners LP and Purim D.Yu., which are part of the same group with the participation of a foreign investor, including a state registered in the territory of the state, committing unfriendly actions against the Russian Federation, contradicts the foundations of the country's law and order and threatens its security, - said in the case file cited by the agency. - Summarizing the above, the court concludes that the special legal consequences of the invalidity of the null and void transaction, namely, the conversion of shares acquired under null and void transactions to the income of the Russian Federation, should be applied to the transactions for the purchase and sale of shares dated December 24, 2020 and May 13, 2022. |  |
The Prosecutor General's Office disputes the purchase of Orneto Partners LP and Dmitry Purim of KMTP shares. The lawsuit was filed on March 1, 2023, follows from the data in the file of cases. The court ruling says that the Scottish company acquired 43,000 shares of the terminal on December 24, 2020., Dmitry Purim - 3,500 shares on May 13, 2022. The amount of transactions in the court materials was not disclosed. The authorized capital of KMTP consists of 100,000 shares with a par value of 1 ruble.
The prosecutor's office justifies the claim by the fact that a group of persons with a foreign investor established control over a society "of strategic importance for ensuring the defense and security of the state." The plaintiff insists the deal should have been agreed with the government's Foreign Investment Control Commission, which has not been done.[2]
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