OREANDA-NEWS. June 26, 2009. The shareholders TransContainer  OJC (RZD subsidiary) at the meeting held on June 23 decided to pay RUR 268,030,267 as dividends for 2008 (RUR 19.29 per ordinary share), the company reports.

The shareholders also approved the company’s financial statements and elected the Board of Directors (9 members).

TransContainer JSC operates as a subsidiary of Russian Railways OJSC from July 2006. The company owns 47 terminals in Russia’s major freight centres, with its 17 branches covering the entire Russian railway network. Furthermore, TransContainer is the largest owner of specialized rolling stock in Russia, the CIS countries, and the Baltics: it has more than 24,000 fitting platforms and more than 53,000 large-capacity containers. In 2008, RAS net profit of TransContainer amounted to RUR 2.7 bln. In 2008, fitting platforms of TransContainer  carried 1.5 mln TEU (+7%, year-on-year).