air Transport

As Kommersant has learned, the competition commission for selecting a management company for Sheremetyevo International Airport JSC decided to exclude Imbera LLC from the list of applicants due to non-compliance with the requirements set out in the competition documentation. Thus, three groups will collide in the fight for the airport - the alliance of Aeroflot and the National Reserve Bank (NRB), Mezhprombank and the Alfa-Eco company, which, as Kommersant has learned, is entering the competition in an alliance with three European companies - Munich Airport, Airport Consulting Vienna and Bouygues Construction.
According to preliminary data, Imbera LLC, which, according to a Kommersant source in the Ministry of Property of the Russian Federation, “is a figurehead,” does not meet the requirements presented to the management company “by several criteria at once, including low qualifications of management personnel and lack of capital.” It is expected that the official announcement of the exclusion of Imbera will occur tomorrow, after the next meeting of the competition commission. The documentation of the remaining applicants, after consideration by the Ministry of Economic Development, the Ministry of Property and the Ministry of Transport, was recognized as meeting the requirements.
As Kommersant was told by Sheremetyevo International Airport JSC, the least active company in the fight for the airport is Spetsproektinvest, created by Mezhprombank, Rusneftegaz, Ingosstrakh and Volganefteprom. The other two contenders - the alliance of Aeroflot and NRB, as well as JSC Alfa-Sheremetyevo, according to a Kommersant source in the Ministry of Property, "collide in almost every reception room." Following Aeroflot's announcement of attracting a subsidiary of the Vinci construction holding company, Alfa-Sheremetyevo, as a shareholder to Interterminal LLC, created to participate in the competition, Alfa-Sheremetyevo announced an alliance with three companies operating in the airport business.
As Igor Baranovsky, general director of Alfa-Sheremetyevo, told Kommersant, his company has entered into cooperation agreements with Munich Airport International, Airport Consulting Vienna (performs consulting work for Vienna Airport) and Bouygues Construction (a French construction concern with an annual turnover of 22 billion euros). According to Mr. Baranovsky, if they win the competition, these companies will help Alfa in “the development, reconstruction and construction of infrastructure facilities at Sheremetyevo Airport.” In addition, Alfa-Sheremetyevo announced an invitation to leadership positions from “leading Russian and Western managers of the airport business,” whose names are not disclosed until the results of the competition are summed up. The Alfa-Eco representative is convinced that his alliance “looks more advantageous compared to its competitors.” “Firstly, we take responsibility only for ourselves and do not share shares in our joint-stock company, attracting partners to cooperate exclusively on a commercial basis, and secondly, the state has already stated the need to separate airlines and airports to create competitive conditions,” noted Mr. Baranovsky.
Deputy General Director of Aeroflot Lev Koshlyakov told Kommersant that his company “has something to answer to competitors” and promised that in the near future “the alliance of the airline, NRB and Vinci will disseminate information that will strengthen his group’s chances of winning the competition,” the results of which will be summed up on January 28.
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Newspaper "Kommersant" No. 7/P dated January 19, 2004, page 16

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