Project Description
Eurosib group of companies (Eurosib of the Group) based in Saint Petersburg, offers transportation and logistics services to shippers of coal, steel, fertilizers, paper, lumber, containerized and other cargo within Russia and the former Soviet Union. With extensive rail transport operations throughout Russia, Eurosib’s main business is the operation of owned and leased rolling stock for the transportation of bulk goods and the provision of freight forwarding and logistics services.
The proposed investment consisting of loans of up to $47 million for the account of IFC and syndicated loans of up to $70 million would finance a part of the Group’s corporate investment program comprising the construction and operation of a network of six inland container-handling logistics terminals throughout Russia. This investment program is expected to be completed in 2008. This would be IFC’s second investment with the Group. IFC’s first loan of $30 million (Project #23270) was committed in FY2005.