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    UNITED SHIPBUILDING CORP. TO GET CONTROLLING STAKE IN AMUR PLANT

    RIA Novosti
    16:00 | 11/ 05/ 2009

    KOMSOMOLSK-ON-AMUR, May 11 (RIA Novosti) - The United Shipbuilding
    Corporation will receive 59% - a controlling stake previously owned
    by a group of private shareholders - in the Amur Shipbuilding Plant,
    the Russian premier told a shipbuilding meeting Monday.

    Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that on Saturday "[state savings
    bank] Sberbank and the group of private shareholders signed an
    agreement on the sale of the share to Sberbank for a small sum so
    that it could later be sold to the United Shipbuilding Corporation,
    which is 100% state-owned."

    Putin added that the corporation already has 17.9% of the plant's
    stock. "On the whole, the United Shipbuilding Corporation will have
    a package of about 77%," he said.

    The Amur plant's owes 36 billion rubles ($1.1 billion) in loans,
    including a 13.9 billion-ruble ($431 million) debt to Sberbank.

    The government will help the plant restructure its debt. "In total,
    almost 2.5 billion rubles [$77 million] and over $400 million will
    be directed to debt restructuring," Putin said.
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