Delo Group board chairman mulling idea to establish grain transshipment hub in Oman

MOSCOW. Jan 27 (Interfax) - Sergei Shishkarev, chairman of the board of directors at Delo Group, has announced the idea of establishing a grain hub in Oman.

"My idea is to establish a grain transshipment hub, possibly for processing, or to conduct trading operations in the Sultanate of Oman, followed by redistribution and delivery of the grain to African countries," Shishkarev said in an interview with Rossiya 24 TV.

Shishkarev said that this primarily concerns the east coast of Africa, where many countries consume Russian grain.

As previously reported, Delo Group intends to establish a presence in grain elevators and warehouses in grain-consuming areas in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and possibly Nigeria and Ethiopia, as part of its strategy up to 2035.

Delo Group operates marine container terminals in the Azov-Black Sea, Baltic and Far Eastern basins, a network of railway container terminals, and a fleet of containers and flatcars. The group's transportation and logistics division includes the TransContainer intermodal container operator and the Ruscon multimodal transport operator, and the stevedoring division includes DeloPorts and the Global Ports leading container terminal operator.