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The delegation also included Vladimir Ustinov, Presidential Plenipotentiary Representative in the Southern Federal District, and Veniamin Kondratiev, Governor of the Krasnodar Territory.

Shishkarev outlined Delo Group's terminal development projects, highlighting the ongoing reconstruction of the container terminal's deep-water berth, set to increase capacity by 30% by 2027, and plans to expand the grain terminal's capacity by 16% by the end of 2026. The delegation also discussed topics like terminal coordination with relevant authorities during emergencies, security measures, the potential creation of a single data management center, introduction of "green corridors" for priority passage of vessels with digital profiles, and the development of approaches to the Azov-Black Sea basin ports.

"The Azov-Black Sea basin is one of the major directions of cargo transportation for Russia. Over the recent years, a large-scale process of updating and expanding the port infrastructure of major cities has been implemented. About twenty projects are planned to be launched in the ports of the Krasnodar Territory – Novorossiysk, Taman, Tuapse, Temryuk, Kavkaz and Yeysk by 2030," Nikolai Patrushev noted.

"Delo Group is making systematic investments in modern transport infrastructure. With our own funds, we built the country's largest offshore grain terminal in Novorossiysk from scratch, and commissioned a unique deep-water berth at the container terminal in Southern Russia in 2019. Our investments in the container terminal total 17 billion rubles, and 11 billion rubles in the grain terminal. Currently, their utilization exceeds 90%, and we're working to boost capacity to over 1 million TEU and 12.6 million tons of grain annually. We prioritize production efficiency, as well as safety and coordinated efforts with relevant services during emergencies," stated Shishkarev.

Shishkarev also participated in a meeting on the implementation of national maritime policy in the coastal territories of the Azov-Black Sea region, chaired by Patrushev and held at the Novorossiysk administration.

Delo Group takes an integrated approach to achieving transport sovereignty, constructing new facilities, and upgrading existing infrastructure using modern technology and international best practices. Over its more than 30-year history, the Group's investments in the nation's transport infrastructure have exceeded 170 billion rubles.

Processing and transfer of transport registers, acceptance certificates, and accompanying documents are now fully automated and handled electronically. This significantly speeds up information processing, reduces employees’ manual workload, and improves data accuracy.

The system also provides notifications about defective products delivered by road transport. After the terminal’s in-house laboratory analyzes and evaluates grain quality, the results appear in real time in the personal account, reducing vehicle wait times at the terminal.

“The implementation of the digital platform provides our customers with quick access to information, shortens document processing times, and increases the transparency of all operations. We are confident that these state-of-the-art solutions will enable efficient and user-friendly cooperation and will help promote Russian products on international markets,” said Alexander Trukhanovich, CEO of the KSK grain terminal.

Since last year, Delo Group has been rolling out a digitalization program at the grain terminal. Earlier, the acceptance of vehicles with electronic consignment notes (ECN) was introduced. The company plans to further develop the “Exporter’s Personal Account” to enhance competitiveness and service quality and to strengthen its position as the leader in Russia’s maritime grain transshipment market.

In recent years, industry leaders such as Global Ports, TransContainer, and Sakhalin Shipping Company have become part of the group, joining core assets based in Novorossiysk — DeloPorts and Ruscon. The group has also launched its own IT solutions provider, DeloTech. Additionally, Rosatom State Corporation has acquired a stake in Delo Management Company, the parent company of the group.

“Rebranding is a natural next step after bringing all our assets together into a single logistics network. We’ve worked hard to become market leaders domestically, and we’ve succeeded. Now we’re setting our sights on expanding internationally and exploring new directions on a new level. We have everything it takes: experience, a solid strategy, and fresh thinking. With this rebranding, we’re preserving the best of what we’ve built while uniting it under a new identity,” said Sergey Shishkarev, founder and chairman of the board of directors of Delo Group.

The updated logo maintains elements from the original design — it still features a globe and the signature blue and white color scheme — but now conveys more energy and movement. The stylized arrows pointing outward reflect the group’s ambitions and drive for growth.

The official color palette includes “deep sea blue” and “sail white,” representing the company’s deep ties to the maritime industry, where it all began. A third color, “metallic gray,” stands for reliability and stable business performance.

The new brand structure will shift from a multi-brand model to a unified one, centered around the updated logo. All companies within the group will share the same symbol, corporate font, and colors, while retaining their current names.

The rebranding process will roll out in stages, with updates to corporate visuals and media over time. During this transition period, both the old and new logos will coexist.

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The new logo was designed by the branding agency LINII, which is also developing the full corporate identity and brand guidelines for the Delo Group.

The Moscow Exchange registered the bond issue on 13 March 2025 under the 4B02-04-36485-R-001P number. Expert RA, a rating agency, assigned a ruAA- credit rating to the series 001P-04 bonds issued by DeloPorts.

The bonds were issued under DeloPorts’ programme for exchange-traded bonds registered in August 2016. The programme allows for total issuance of up to RUB 100 billion or its equivalent in a foreign currency. The maximum bond maturity under the programme is 10 years. 

“With this new bond issue, DeloPorts sought to refinance its previous issue, which matures on 1 April 2025. Additionally, given the more attractive financing conditions in the bond market compared to traditional loans, we replaced part of our loan portfolio (calculated as the banking margin plus the Bank of Russia’s key rate) with new instruments offering a coupon rate of 20.75%. The fact that DeloPorts was able to offer bonds below the current key rate reflects the Company's strong position as an issuer and the high quality of its assets, which provide best-in-class stevedoring services in the Azov–Black Sea region,” said Elena Svirina, Deputy CEO for Finance and Economics at DeloPorts. 

KSK handled a record 10.3 million tons of grain for export for Russia, which is 25.6% higher than in 2023. The terminal’s throughput capacity increased to 10.5 million tons. In the fourth quarter of 2024, transshipment at KSK has increased by 44% to 2.7 million tons. A monthly handling record of 1.074 million tons was set in October, which is 4.3% higher than the previous achievement (in April 2024).

Following the results of the last year NUTEP increased container turnover by 1.7% to 613 thousand TEU and took the second place among container terminals of the country. In October-December, the terminal increased handling by 12.3%, to 160,000 TEU.

“In 2024, DeloPorts consolidated its leadership among Russia’s stevedores, ensuring a historic record transshipment volume of both containers and grain. The growth in cargo turnover has been driven by the consistent implementation of investment and operational efficiency projects implemented over the past few years. Moreover, we see the long-term potential of the market and plan to further increase capacity,” said Igor Yakovenko, CEO of DeloPorts.

Delo Group is implementing a project at NUTEP to reconstruct deep-water berth No. 38, which will result in the terminal’s throughput capacity increasing to 1 million TEU by the end of 2027. KSK development projects will enable the terminal to increase its throughput capacity to 15 million tons per year over the next few years, in particular, by installing equipment for unloading low-tonnage grain ships, which will enable cargo to be delivered to the terminal via inland waterways, relieving the load on railways and motor vehicles.

DeloPorts consolidated results:

 Rounding adjustments have been made in calculating the operating data included in this release. As a result, the numbers and percentages shown in the table may not correspond to exact arithmetic sums.

Company background

Delo Group (Delo Group of Companies) is a Russian transportation and logistics holding company founded in 1993. It is a leader in marine transshipment and railway transportation of containers, as well as deep-sea grain transshipment in Russia. Companies of the Group provide cargo delivery across all stages of the multimodal transportation chain in both domestic and cross-border traffic. The Group operates 9 marine terminals and 47 inland terminals. The total capacity of the marine terminals is 3.9 million TEU and 10,5 million tons of grain per year, and 3.7 million TEU per year of the inland terminals. The Group operates a fleet of 42,000 fitting platforms and containers with a total capacity of 230,000 TEU, as well as its own fleet.