“Far Eastern Shipping Company Plc”, the issuer of shares for FESCO Transportation Group, announces the completion of its placement of all 590,250,000 new shares.

On July 5, 2008 FESCO Transport Group opened a regular container line between the ports of Ukraine and China, as well as Singapore – FESCO black sea Service.

Russkaya Troyka held the annual shareholder meeting on June 23, 2008 in Moscow and approved the decision to pay dividends for 2007 totaling RUR2.228 per share. The net profit of Russkaya Troyka totaled RUR210.34 million in 2007, cargo traffic – 86 632 TEU including 69.3% delivered by container trains.