MOSCOW, June 11 (Reuters) - Sberbank Capital, a unit of Russia's state-controlled Sberbank, has aquired 10 percent of Global Ports (GPI), which handles a third of Russia's container shipping traffic, GPI's owner said on Thursday.
N-Trans, the owner of GPI and the largest private transportation and infrastructure group in Russia, did not name the value of the deal in its statement.
"We believe in the prospects of growth of infrastructure projects; in our opinion these projects will provide a lucrative long-term return," Ashot Hachaturyants, general director of Sberbank Capital, said in the statement. In 2007, GPI handled over 30 percent of Russian container traffic and fuel oil exports, according to its Web site. This includes three container port facilities in Russia, two container terminals in Finland, and the largest independent oil products terminal in the Baltic, Vopak EOS. (Reporting by Simon Shuster; Editing by Dan Lalor)