17/05/2010
Capital investments in setting up a distillery, a brewery and a bottlery
According to the latest investigations, the average annual rate of alcohol consumption in Russia is 4 l of clear alcohol per person. At that the men drink almost 4 times more then women. People, who do not drink alcohol, make 10 %. From the point of view of these facts Swedish investment fund took the decision to start the project on creation of a plant producing alcoholic beverages. At the present time the income from alcohol industry takes great part in country budget. The project requires the investments of $20 mln. The great part of money, about $12 mln, will be spent for the questions of licences and equipment. The payment period is planned to be 3 years.14/05/2010
Capital investments in construction of a meat-processing plant
Nowadays Russia makes all efforts to develop production and economy of the country in order to overcome crisis and during last time these trying are successful. A private Swedish investment fund decided to invest in meat-processing business in Russia, Moscow region, as there is lack of such production of meat products is noticed. As the researches showed there is high or low quality and price of produced meat products, but the planned meat-processing plant will be orientated on the average level of population to satisfy its basic needs.12/05/2010
Construction of landing-stages on the Moscow River - capital investment of Caspian trading Inc.
Caspian trading Inc. is looking for the investors for the project of Moscow river landing-stages construction. At the present time it was begun three building items. The project promises to be profitable with the investments of thirty millions of dollars. According to our experts’ observations nowadays there are just individual building projects, but not common united architectural conception in developing of landing-stages on the Moscow River. In Russia the building on water is on the initial stage. Now, when the new technologies appeared and people search for reliable projects to invest, it became rather possible to create and realize the complex program on the Moscow River landing-stages development.07/05/2010
Gated community development - safe investment project with high profi
The Swedish invest fund started its investment project on developing a land plot in one of Moscow regions, Chekhov town. It is planned that the project will be realized in 15 years. At the present time our experts consider this project to be even more profitable than it was expected. The demand for accommodation in such districts grows as not all building projects in Russia, particularly in Moscow and near it, were completed because of crisis and the supply of accommodation in suburbia is not big. The preliminary calculations showed that the total sum of investments should be $180 000 000.02/05/2010
We have entered an open pit in Kazakhstan (Aktobe) that provides major Kazakh building companies with drafted and untooled stones, gravel, and crunched stone. As we consider this business big and promising we have invested a part of our funds in its reconstruction. As the pit has 3,000 employees it mines 1.200.000 tons of granite per year and we are planning to increase the mining up to 1.800.000 MT to get the leadership in Kazakhstan. Now we are on the stage of controlling the existing resources and planning reconstruction.24/04/2010
Russian companies exported 124 000 000 MT of oil in the 1st Q 2010 - as Caspian Trading is involved in the Kazakhstan project for the oil refinery reconstruction we monitor all the major changes on the market. In the second quarter 2010 we see the falling demand in oil, as the Chinese government made the traders set up the gasoline prices lower. We are planning to get the first bonds offer by the end of 2010 and this way get the first tranche for the reconstruction. We consider Chinese market to be open for our gasoline after the refinery reconstruction as our prices will be really competitive.11/04/2010
Russia is exporting 5.9 mln tons of oil in April. The transportation will be done from Primorsk, where the biggest oil terminal of the country is located. The volume of export is constantly increasing and this requires more petroleum terminals. One of such projects was started by Caspian Trading Inc. in Kazakhstan and growing turnover will assist to maximize the total profit. The location of the oil terminal in Kaliningrad region is strategically important. Optimal number of tans and tank size will be reconsidered in the nearest weeks by Caspian Trading Inc., which has big experience in the investment projects of this kind.29/03/2010
The growth of prices on oil makes two investment projects of Caspian Trading Inc. especially profitable. The growth of prices on oil, which was registered today in New York (rise to highs for the last 17 month) promises recovery of economy. The consumption will be boosted and favorable conditions will be created for two projects of Caspian Trading Inc., which are currently under way: expansion of oil refinery in Kazakhstan and construction of petroleum terminal in Kaliningrad region. The crack spread, (the difference between the price of crude oil and refined products), will increase as well as profits and therefore good returns can be expected here. In spite of price fluctuation in different seasons, the profits are high and the stability of demand is indisputable.16/03/2010
The crude distillation unit is going to be expanded at the Kazakhstan oil refinery, which is looking for the influx of new funds from new business participants. The decision was taken in view of profitable perspective of the oil refinery business. The number of joint stocks involved in this business rapidly increases, and only mutual efforts can make the work the most efficient. For instance, Ukraine and Kazakhstan are launching their joint venture petroleum refinery project soon. Growing domestic demands and demands for exports abroad made Caspian Trading Inc. think about expansion of this business.02/03/2010
Construction enterprises positions in Russia and former Soviet republics are trading up today. Despite the crisis, construction projects show nice perspectives. That’s why construction materials become a useful and high-yield group of raw materials. A prospectively high-yield stone quarry located in Western Kazakhstan not far from Atyrau town has been bought in 2009 in order to modernize and totally reconstruct it in the next few years. The quarry is a working one, and it produces granite, marble, limestone and other useful construction materials. Caspian Trading investment fund is in charge of this investment project. According to new reports of our investment experts, level of profit of this project may rise considerably by 2011. By this moment, we have developed an extensive innovative plan of expanding and modernizing the business, and were actively searching for funds for future construction. Our point was to make use of current market weakness to save money, while markets are frozen and prices are relatively low. Robust growth of construction industry in Russia and favorable attention of co-investors lead to money flow into the project in the beginning of the year. Caspian Trading investment fund had $24 mln of investments infused into this stone quarry within the period of December 2009 - January 2010. Due to this, first and second phases of reconstruction have been completed. We continue! Do watch the news!19/01/2010
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Greek counterpart George Papandreou held talks about cooperation in the field of oil and gas transit. Greece urgently develops several ambitious oil and gas pipeline projects together with Russia, expecting that it will somehow boost its poorly performing national economy. Moscow and Athens vowed to achieve progress with the Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline in the near future. The pipeline is going to be built from Bulgaria's Black Sea coast to Greece's Aegean Sea coast. Although Russia, Greece and Bulgaria took a timeout with this project last summer, now Greece has a newfound motive to speed up the pipeline building. Its pure financial situation has worried the entire European Union, and it still does. Papandreou thinks that work on the pipelines would revitalize the economy, so he is very decisive about the beginning of work. He said that construction might begin within half a year. Russian authorities have been “kind enough” to finance most of the project. Vladimir Putin said that “we do have enough money for this type of projects, and there would be absolutely no problems with funding them”. He also agreed that it will be a great help for Greek economy.07/02/2010
Recently, it was announced to the global business community that the country is seriously inclined to modernize its economic environment. Dmitry Medvedev, Russian president, has talked about modernization a lot of times recently. Igor Shuvalov, first deputy prime minister, told hundreds of international and Russian investors at a conference organized by the Moscow investment bank “Troika Dialog” that Russian “new economy” would emerge by 2020. He said that authorities are going to pay attention to innovation, development of “human capital” and attraction of investments. He also stated that it is possible to significantly improve the country’s investment climate through reduction of corruption and clean-up of the law system. Although in 2009 Russia suffered its worst recession for the past decade, the country showed wonderful potential and recovered quickly. Foreign investors are again eyeing Russia’ s stock market favorably. Long-term investment in non-modern parts of the economy should make it possible to introduce long-awaited innovations in them. Russia from the point of view of foreign investors is a very unstable country. Its economy defaulted in 1991, restructured in 1995, defaulted again in 1998, and suffered a great economic recession in 2009. But its potential is huge, and this to some extent answers the investors’ question “Why should we invest in Russia?” Also, a good progress on the investment climate is connected with the fact that government has made some decisive steps to improve our judicial system and fight with corruption.27/01/2009
In the world, there is still some skepticism about Moscow’s ability to tackle rampant corruption and build dynamically developing, civilized economy with highly successful innovative business projects. Yet, as you may already have read in investment reports, such projects do exist, and Caspian Trading investment fund is renowned for ability to find such projects. Nowadays, our Caspian Trading investment fund is participating in one of such projects in the field of light industry. We are launching a new investment project dealing with running an enterprise of consumer industry in the Moscow Region which will be producing a large number of beverages and soft drinks (both alcoholic and non-alcoholic). Although beverages market of Moscow and Moscow Region is highly saturated, there is certain lack of locally manufactured drinks. That’s why we expect these beverages to have success being delivered onto the market of Moscow Region. Targeted annual output is approximately 10 mln. litres. We expect to use most advanced technologies and establish a truly innovative manufacturing complex. The business plans and master plans of this manufacture have already been finished. Now we gladly put in remembrance to all our readers that construction of production facilities has been started in autumn 2009. Now the first phase of construction work has been finished. Despite negative moods inspired by the global crisis, we have acquired four new co-investors who have already participated in financing in equal parts. Also, we have received a new portion of payments from our main investor. Now we are ready to begin the next (second) stage of work.You can see details of this projects here
14/01/2009
Current uneasy economic climate has a definitely negative influence on investment options. Recently, though, experts have estimated very favorably the prospectives of precious metals market. So, experts have advised investors that it might be the wisest decision to maintain "a significant position in gold or platina. It is very prudent for those who seek to play it safe in our crisis times. And this is not an individual arguable opinion – a whole bunch of investment experts have recently stated in their reports that now it is a very good time for people to put their funds into gold and platina. A very famed expert, senior editor of Casey Research named Louis James, issued a report saying that current situation makes best opportunities for investors to put their funds into precious metals. "It's a buying opportunity to take hold of," he insists. Louis James also says that it is one of the best options for private investors. Today is St.Valentine’s Day, and we can not but speak of jewelry as an investment option. If your family buys gold jewelry or coins, you might be making good profit out of them several years later. A rare coin specialist recently gave an interview to an investment portal named Commodity Online, where he told that anyone who is looking to invest in precious metal can choose between bullion and numismatic gold. Rare coins are highly valued, yet bullion items, valued by their weight and purity of their gold content, can also prove to be quite a good investment.05/01/2009
Russian stock market got a little shook up by slightly strengthening dollar and retreating oil prices last week. Some falling of crude contracts was noticed. Gazprom, Rosneft and Lukoil gave up several percents of their stock price. Strengthening of dollar also showed some negative influence on domestic banking brands, such as Sberbank, Alfa-Bank and Bank VTB. As Finam reports, some of the large enterprises in different fields of manufacturing trended in line with the market, that is, declined 1-2%. Let us assure you that this is not a somewhat catastrophic tendency. This week, stocks are under great pressure from retreating oil prices. But positive trends may regain soon, so there is no reason for panic. Let us remember that beginning of week was positive for Russian companies. Rallying crude prices stoked gains, bank brands and steel stocks were also high. Why are oil prices moving south? Petroleum market is very sensitive, and this time, it showed a negative reaction to some political decisions – for example, to an unexpected decision by the US Fed to gradually stop stimulus measures for other countries meant to counterfeit the global crisis. This Fed’s decision made some oil contracts sink. It is interesting to know, by the way, that Asian stocks moved down accordingly with Russian stocks, and US stocks closed in positive territory for several days. Bullishness stemmed from the same spike in oil prices that made our stocks go down.02/12/2009
Caspian Trading investment fund has bought stock and made some direct investments into a prospectively high-yield stone quarry located in Western Kazakhstan not far from Atyrau town. The quarry is a source of granite, marble, limestone and other useful construction materials. We have developed a plan of expanding and modernizing the business. Our point is to make use of current market weakness to save money, while markets are frozen and prices are relatively low. To carry out the project, we need around $20 mln of investments.In September 2009 we started upgrading the mines. Caspian Trading investment fund is still looking for co-investors!
04/11/2009
A project of buying an operating open pit in Kazakhstan (Aktobe) has entered the new phase. The pit supplies major Kazakh constructing companies with a broad range of constructing materials: drafted and untooled stones, gravel, crushed stone, limestone and cobble, etc. It is a large enterprise with more than 3,000 employees.We have spent a cost of $19 mln to bring up our stake share in the business from a minor level to a controlling level, and now have a 42% share. We plan to raise up to $10 mln in cash before mid-2010. Due to crisis and prices downfall, we expect the payback period to be equal to 3-4 years, with rough net income of $3 mln per year. We are now open to offers of sharing stock with potential investors.
You can see details of this project here
27/10/2009
One of our investment projects is a draft project of buying a land plot and development of around 47,000 sq.m of warehousing facilities of class B. The plan is to construct prime quality warehousing buildings with certain infrastructure, refrigerating equipment, electric trolleys and elevators. We plan to sign preliminary lease contracts for 70% of the total warehousing space with several large tenant enterprises.
We have counted that the rent can generate around $7 mln of yearly income. Fund-raising is now almost complete, and two days ago we have completed a deal buying an appropriate land plot. We accept congratulations!
You can see details of this project here
20/10/2009
Caspian Trading investment fund has begun construction of oil terminals in the Kaliningrad Region. It is a very profitable and large investment project in the field of oil manufacturing. It includes development of an oil refueling base and a warehouse terminal. The business plan cotes for construction of a mooring for 2-3 tankers, storage and draining capacities, and railroads. This will be an important part of transportation of both oil refinery products and crude oil.
We have recently found two strategic investors ready to contribute $15 mln and $18 mln into the project. We estimate the total costs of construction will be around $65 mln, and so we seek for more investors. All the rest, except for the capitals, is ready for construction.
You can see details of this project here
16/10/2009
Our investment fund is launching a new project in the Moscow Region to set up a plant producing alcoholic beverages as well as soft drinks to be delivered onto the Moscow market. We have already developed a business plan which offers a possibility to produce beverages of different types with targeted annual output of 10 mln litres.
The projected return on capital is expected between 30 and 40%. The business plan and the master plan have already been finished, and all relevant licenses and documents have been obtained. We are glad to announce that we have found a main investor and a few co-investors. Construction has already been started, and we have prepared funds for the next stage of work. It may be started as early as in March 2010.
