Novaport

Novaport
legal form	Russian Limited Liability Company (OOO)
founding	2007
Seat	Moscow
management	Sergei Rudakov (CEO)
Branch	Airports
Website	www.novaport.ru

Novaport ( Russian: Новапорт ) is a Russian investment holding company based in Moscow , which is engaged in the reconstruction, development and marketing of regional Russian airports. The company's goal is to increase accessibility to transport in Russia by building a network of regional airports. It is a subsidiary of the international investment company AEON Corporation , which is owned by the Russian entrepreneur Roman Trozenko .

history

The first airport stake in what would later become the company's network was a minority stake of 38% in Novosibirsk-Tolmachovo , which was acquired in 2004. The control package of 51% was held by the state at the time. A minority stake of 48% in the operating company of Barnaul Airport was also bought before Novaport was founded . To date, it is the only minority holding in an airport in the company's network. In the founding year 2007, the operating company of the Kadala airport in Chita is completely taken over.

In 2008 the company entered three new airports: Together with Tomsk Oblast , an operating company for Tomsk Airport was founded , in which it held 74.9%, the remaining shares remained in the possession of the Oblast. The joint company buys the old airport company and a large part of the property at Tomsk Avia . At first 69% of the Chelyabinsk airport was acquired. This share was increased to 85% at the end of 2014 and increased to 100% in November 2015. Also in 2008, Novaport acquired 43% of the operator of the southern Russian airport in Astrakhan . This share was further expanded: In 2011, the Cypriot subsidiary of Novaport TS Trans Siberia Co. Ltd. in the case of a privatization 51% at Astrakhan Airport, in January 2013 this share was increased to 86.1%. Novaport has been the sole shareholder in the operating company since December 2015.

In 2011, Novaport also acquired 51% of Novosibirsk Airport for 2.8 billion rubles in a privatization in March. As a result, the proportion of structures controlled by Novaport at the airport rose to well over 80% overall. Since the end of 2015 they have been 100% controlled Also in 2011, 51% of the operating company of Volgograd Airport was obtained in a privatization . Today Novaport holds 61% (as of June 2017). In June 2011 it was announced that Novaport would manage the airport in the Georgian city of Sukhumi. However, the transaction did not take place and Novaport did not acquire any stake in it. In November 2011 the holding company announced that it wanted to consolidate its airport holdings in its Cypriot subsidiary TS Trans Siberia Co. Limited . In December 2014, Novaport took out a loan of 5.5 billion rubles from Sberbank in order to acquire all the assets of TS Trans Siberia .

The Roschtschino airport in Tyumen acquired completely to the end, 2014. The price remained unclear. The airport was then valued at around 769 million rubles. In March 2015 it was announced that Novaport, through a subsidiary, had won the tender for 75% of the shares in the Perm Airport operating company . The offer of 1.5 billion rubles prevailed against rivals from Basel Aero ( Basic Element ) and Aeroporty Regionow ( Renova Group ). The condition for the final acquisition of the stake in the airport is that the new terminal building be built at the airport by the end of 2017. Also in 2015, 50.7% of Murmansk Airport was acquired at a state auction . By the end of 2015, an agreement was reached with the co-owners, including Gazprom Neft, and became the only major shareholder. In March 2016, they bought 90% of Kemerovo Airport , in which they want to invest up to one billion rubles over the next few years. In July 2016 Novaport bought the shares in Kaliningrad- Khrabrovo (100%) and Mineralnye Vody (60%) airports from competing investor Aeroinvest . In September 2017 it was announced that Novaport had also bought Baikal Airport in Ulan-Ude . The purchase price was not published.