OREANDA-NEWS. May 17, 2012. Expert RA rating agency assigned A creditworthiness rating (high) to TransM. Forecast is “stable”.

NefteTransService pluses: high profitability, sufficiently increased assets, high liquidity, high business activity.  The rating evaluation was supported by low currency risks, high quality of risk-management and insurance protection.

Limiting factors: poorly diversified debt structure, insufficient capital adequacy, high level of debt payments in 2012, high level of accounts receivable in asset structure, insufficient information transparency.

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