RUSSIA INFRASTRUCTURE September 2, 2013 TOP STORY 1. Aeroflot Rostec Seeks to Manage State Stake in Aeroflot 21. Rostec to assemble Rohde & 2. More than $12bn of deals done at Schwarz equipment MAKS airshow 22. Russia's Aviaexport, Ukrinmash to 3. Russian Aircraft Makers Need New export aircraft jointly Recovery Strategy – Deputy PM 23. State Company Wins $3 Billion 4. Russians offers Poland Airbus World Cup Construction Contract shares RUSSIA ROADS 5. 3 Tycoons Bidding for 24. Prosecutor Investigating $43M Sheremetyevo Terminal Theft From Roadbuilding Budget 6. First Kazakhstan aircraft plant fails 25. Russia's govt includes highway to produce any planes in 2 years bridge construction in govt program 7. Tajikistan to set stricter rules for RUSSIA TRAINS airlines 26. Globaltrans - might benefit from 8. Russia sells part of controversial Rostransnadzor demanding that RZD EADS stake stop using old railcars 9. Russian Budget Airline Red Wings to 27. Ministry offers stripping Russian Double Fleet by 2017 Railways of ticket aid RUSSIA INFRASTRUCTURE NEWS RUSSIA PLANES 10. Medvedev predicts Russia's 28. After Emergency Landing in aviation market to exceed RUB1tn Moscow, United Airlines Passengers soon Appeal for Help 11. State Support Crucial for Russian 29. More than $12bn of deals done at Aircraft Industry – Medvedev MAKS airshow 12. Building of shipyard for Russia's 30. 129 civil planes worth $7 bln sold Gazprom behind schedule on 1st day of MAKS airshow 13. Cuba Gets 3rd An-158 Plane, Signs 31. Aeroflot gets 2nd SSJ 100 plane to Deal for 3 More full spec from Sukhoi 14. Gazprom Avia Gets 1st Long-Haul 32. Bombardier to sell 100 Q400 Superjet 100 planes to Russia 15. Investing into Russian Trans- 33. Chechnya may buy up to 8 SSJ Siberian railway 100 planes for Grozny Avia 16. Russian regions to pay 65% of 34. Gazprom Avia Gets 1st Long-Haul suburban traffic costs from 2014 Superjet 100 17. THE INSIDERS: Export credit 35. Mexico's Interjet may buy more agencies step into the breach SSJ-100 airplanes from Russia INFRASTRUCTURE OTHER NEWS 36. Rostec, Airbus to team up in 18. $455k suit against Moscow airport making aviation biofuel over terrorist attack rejected 37. Russia's Oboronprom, 19. Moscow Driver Gets Record 300 Rosoboronexport to assemble EADS Parking Tickets in Six Months airplanes 20. Road Project Brings Hope and 38. Russia's SAT Airlines to transfer Problems 49% stake to Sakhalin Region 39. Russia's Sukhoi may share 60. Master plan for Minsk Airport technologies with Chinese firms territory to be ready in 2013 40. Russia's government to extend 61. Truckers free to bypass toll roads aircraft loan subsidies till 2015 in Belarus 41. Russia, China may co-produce EA INFRASTRUCTURE heavy lift helicopters 62. Armenia to open up air transport 42. Russian helicopter industry sector after Armavia collapse reaches for global markets 63. Azerbaijan Railways to upgrade 43. Russian ministry: needless to railcar fleet construct new facilities for low-cost 64. Georgian start-up, Air Caucasus, airports launches ops with Tbilisi - Antalya 44. Sberbank-Leasing, Sukhoi to 65. Kyrgyz President emphasizes market SuperJet jointly importance of railway to link Turkic- 45. St Pete's Pulkovo Airport speaking countries passenger traffic rises 18% in July 66. Mongolia, Russia, China Discuss 46. Sukhoi agrees with AviaAM Leasing Issues On Railway Transportation on provision of 5 SSJs 67. TURKMENISTAN: Building a port 47. Sukhoi to sell 2m extra shares to 68. Transit traffic increases after government launch of Turkmen-Kazakh railway 48. Transaero, Virgin America Sign section Agreement CE INFRASTRUCTURE 49. UTair Signs $217M Contract for 6 69. Etihad, Garuda, China Southern Superjets Airlines said eying Croatia Airlines 50. VEB, Ilyushin to consider supplying stake 4 planes to Cuba 70. Income from port contributions to 51. Deripaska, Vekselberg bid in Latvia's budget to be used for road Sheremetyevo tender maintenance 52. Sheremetyevo to build $300-350m SE INFRASTRUCTURE new terminal 71. Albania's New Leaders Slam Port 53. Aeroexpress Terminal to Boast Privatisation Deal New Look This Autumn 72. Bulgaria starts 75 mln euro rail RUSSIA SHIPS upgrade project 54. Putin to hold conference on civil 73. Bulgaria‚Äôs Varna Airport New shipbuilding in Far East Terminal Welcomes First Passengers 55. Russia’s STK Group may build oil 74. Ex Bulgarian PM: EU to Freeze refinery in Estonian port Funds over New Govt 56. Government Plans $7Bln Port on 75. Highways in Romania, three times Black Sea Coast more expensive than in Bulgaria, price EE INFRASTRUCTURE variations higher than in region 57. Russia and CIS countries' air 76. Israel promotes trade route carriers to buy planes for $140bn between Turkey and Middle East 58. Belarus Air Carrier Cancels Flights 77. Turkish company to build major to Egypt new port in Turkmenistan 59. Decision on more toll roads in Belarus in the pipelin RUSSIA INFRASTRUCTURE TOP STORY sale of its stake. The GDR/ADR 1. Aeroflot Rostec placement of treasury shares could improve liquidity and enlarge the Seeks to Manage investor base. Rostec is an State Stake in experienced investor in aviation although it failed to build a profitable Aeroflot business based on Rosavia, which UralSib included Rossiya, KMVA, Orenburg August 30, 2013 Airlines, Vladivostok Avia, Saratov Airlines and Sakhalin Airlines. The Government supports transferring loss-making Rosavia was finally 25% of Aeroflot to Rostec. transferred in return for a 4% stake in Aeroflot in 2011. The deal turned out According to media, the government to be value-destructive for Aeroflot, could transfer the blocking stake out of which is still struggling to turn around its 51% stake in Aeroflot (AFLT RX – the loss making ex-Rosavia airlines. Buy) to state-run Rostec if the latter manages to sell the rest of the Marginally negative for the sentiment. government’s stake to investors. We believe transferring the blocking stake to Rostec would not increase Sergey Chemezov, the CEO of Rostec, dramatically the risk of politically who currently owns 3.6% in Aeroflot, motivated rather than economically- said at MAKS-2013 international air viable deals for Aeroflot, if it could be show, that Aeroflot’s strategy could be offset by the reduction of the state’s changed towards purchasing more stake and an increase of minorities’ domestically produced aircrafts. voting power, which would enable them to better protect their interests. Equity placement possible. So far The company’s investment case is Aeroflot’s needs for planes, especially supported by growth in air-passenger long-range ones, cannot be covered by traffic and an expected turnaround in the domestic aircraft industry, which is profitability of the regional airlines. We currently concentrated on the reiterate our Buy recommendation for production of planes for regional the name with a target price of routes. The government is currently $2.3/share. Please see also our considering reducing its ownership in desknote ‘Rostec Seeks to Manage Aeroflot to a blocking stake by 2016 State’s Stake in Aeroflot’ published on and it could place its quasi-treasuries 8 July 2013. in New York or London ahead of the Russian Prime Minister Dmitry 2. More than $12bn Medvedev. of deals done at Corporation head Pogosyan said his MAKS airshow company’s current portfolio of orders for the Defense Ministry was for over RIA Novosti August 30, 2013 300 planes, while the total volume of orders as part of the state arms procurement program would be about More than $12bn in contracts have been signed at the MAKS-2013 600 aircraft. international air and space show near Moscow, a sum exceeding the $10bn Under a separate deal, the Defense record set in 2009. Ministry will receive three modernized A-50U early-warning-and-control United Aircraft Corporation president planes this year, said Vartan Mikhail Pogosyan said his company Shakhgedanov, deputy general designer at the Vega company, which alone had signed at least $12bn worth of contracts at the MAKS show this produces the planes. year, compared with $7.5bn last year. A contract for a fourth plane is Russia’s state-run arms exporter expected to be signed shortly, he Rosoboronexport has signed five new added. collaboration agreements with Italy’s Finmeccanica industrial group and Shakhgedanov also said the Defense Ministry would receive the first of the OMA SUD aircraft maker, and inked a contract with Cameroon for Mi-17 two advanced Tu-214ON planes helicopters. Russia’s MiG fighter jet equipped for the Open Skies international program, at the MAKS maker has clinched an agreement with India to establish a servicing center for airshow. The contract for the two its aircraft in the Asian country. aircraft is worth 5bn rubles ($150m), he added. The Russian Defense Ministry has signed a comprehensive $3bn The Defense Ministry currently uses four An-30 aircraft and one Tu- agreement with the UAC on maintenance and servicing of its 154MLK-1 under the Open Skies aircraft, avionics and equipment, and Agreement. signed a $50m contract for a unique electronic warfare system. On Wednesday, the MiG fighter jet maker signed two additional contracts The UTair airline has signed a contract with India worth a total $55m. They with Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Co. for six are part of a general contract with India’s air force. long-haul Superjets, worth $217.2m. Warplanes Under the first, $43m contract, a servicing center will be established in On Tuesday, the UAC and the Defense Ministry signed a 80bn ruble ($2.5bn) India for maintenance and repair of contract for the servicing of aircraft, Zhuk-ME on-board radars, MiG avionics and related equipment. The representatives said. The second, contract was signed in the presence of $12m contract provides for the creation in India of a servicing center for modernized MiG-29UPG fighter in Russia, with initial deliveries due to jets.