The construction company Zapsibgazprom in Tyumen had to use valuable land as a guarantee for their obligations to Zapsibgazprom-Gasification.
Zapsibgazprom-Gasification got a billion-dollar bank guarantee from Promsvyazbank, which will be valid for two years. They are seeking compensation for losses incurred due to a failed operation in Antarctica. The company is demanding compensation for these losses from FSUE Atomflot.
Zapsibgazprom pledged seven land plots in Tyumen to the bank, totaling almost 592 million rubles.
Promsvyazbank provided an irrevocable bank guarantee to Zapsibgazprom-Gasifikatsiya, a subsidiary of the Tyumen construction company.
The contract with Promsvyazbank will be valid until November 1, 2024. Pravda UrFO has requested a comment from the company about the state contract, but has not received a response yet.
It is possible that this relates to interim measures for the construction of the Regional Oncological Dispensary in Tula. Zapsibgazprom-Gazifikatsiya will have to complete and commission the hospital as a subcontractor by October 15, 2023.
The company's management has endorsed the guarantee to Promsvyazbank, but the shareholders will consider approving the transaction on June 17. At the same meeting, the issue of distributing the company’s profit will be resolved.
The builders do not disclose how they will use the 26.7 million rubles of net profit earned last year. A year earlier, the company’s net profit exceeded 2.9 billion rubles.
This happened against the backdrop of multibillion-dollar contracts for the creation of a wintering complex at the Vostok Antarctic research station. The money for the development and creation of the project was allocated by NOVATEK and the Government of the Russian Federation. At the end of 2020, the work approached the final phase, a year ago the company was supposed to receive payment for the transportation of the complex, but due to a large logistical failure, the installation of the station did not start in the short Arctic season of 2020-2021.
Earlier, Pravda UrFO spoke in detail about the reasons for postponing the delivery of the future scientific station in Antarctica: the Sevmorput, which carried all the necessary containers with equipment, by a year. During the repair work, the Antarctic summer (from December to February) came to an end. It is noteworthy that the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Atomflot, due to the nuclear transport icebreaker of which the deadlines were disrupted, demanded compensation for losses of 6.7 million rubles.
The state-owned enterprise filed a corresponding claim with the Arbitration Court of the Tyumen Region. As part of the legal proceedings, Zapsibgazprom had to disclose information about the losses it suffered due to the disrupted project for scientists. The enterprise made counterclaims for compensation for financial losses of more than 659 million rubles.
Meanwhile, Pravda UrFO managed to find out another curious fact. One icebreaker that year nevertheless arrived at the shores of Antarctica. True, he did not carry modules and equipment for the scientific station, but 100 builders, provisions and other necessary materials for arranging their life. The vessel, together with the personnel, had to return to Russia after the breakdown of the lighter carrier, and the sea voyage for the employees cost 291 million rubles.
The icebreaker “Kapitan Dranitsyn”, which went to Antarctica from Murmansk, belongs to FSUE “Rosmorport”. The state-owned enterprise was forced to seek full payment for the work performed through the courts, despite the fact that “they were done in vain.”
The courts of two instances confirmed the legitimacy of the claims of the owner of the icebreaker, who, in addition to the main debt, must also receive a penalty of 9 million rubles. Most likely, these costs are also included in the losses presented to Atomflot.
By the time the material was published, Zapsibgazprom did not answer the question about the structure of the losses presented to the owner of the nuclear-powered lighter carrier.
