OREANDA-NEWS. October 22, 2012. Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port PJSC (“NCSP Group” or the “Group”) (LSE: NCSP, MICEX-RTS: NMTP) announces that on 8 October 2012 Alyona Silina was appointed Director for Internal Communications and Public Relations.

Mikhail Sidorov, who had held the post of Deputy CEO for internal communications and public relations, will continue as the Advisor to the CEO for Public Relations. 'Michael solved a key task - he built the system of corporate communications and organized the information policy in the Group after the merger of Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port and Primorsk Oil Terminal, two of the largest players in the Russian port. Mikhail Sidorov will continue to take part in the Group’s communication strategy formation as an advisor,” said NCSP Group CEO Rado Antolovic commenting on the appointment.

Brief biographical information:

Alyona Silina has more than 12-year experience in corporate communications. From 2007 to 2012, before joining NCSP Group, Alyona was responsible for public relations at SIBUR-Fertilizers. She graduated from Moscow State Linguistic University.

NCSP Group is the largest Russian port operator in terms of cargo turnover. NCSP shares are traded on Russia's MICEX-RTS exchange (ticker: NMTP) and on the London Stock Exchange in the form of GDRs (ticker: NCSP). 50.1% shares of PJSC “NCSP” belong to Novoport Holding Ltd, the beneficial owners of which are OJSC “Transneft” and Summa Group. NCSP Group cargo turnover in 2011 totalled 157 million tonnes. Consolidated revenue according to IFRS in 2011 totalled USD 1,050 million and EBITDA was USD 550 million. NCSP Group combines the following stevedoring and other companies: OJSC “Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port”, LLC “Primorsk Oil Terminal” (since 2011), PJSC “Novorossiysk Grain Terminal”, OJSC “Novorossiysk Ship Repair Yard”, OJSC “NCSP Fleet”, OJSC “NLE”, OJSC “IPP”, CJSC Baltic Stevedore Company, CJSC “SFP” and LLC NFT (joint venture).