Global Ports Investments PLC announces that Alexander Dudko, has been appointed Managing Director of Vostochnaya Stevedore Limited Liability Company (VSC), the Group's container terminal in the Far East of Russia. Mr.Dudko has served for three years as the General Director of Moby Dik, one of the Group's container terminals in the Big Port of St. Petersburg, and had been the Director for Operations of VSC from 2011 to 2012. Mr. Valery Mestulov, the former Managing Director of VSC, has decided to leave to take up a post outside the Group.
The Group will announce the new General Director of Moby Dik in due course.
Mr. Dudko was appointed General Director of Moby Dik in March 2012. Before that Mr. Dudko served as Director for Operations of VSC from early 2011 when he joined the company from DP World Southampton (UK), where he spent three years in various positions. Mr. Dudko started his career in the ports industry working for First Container Terminal in St. Petersburg where he had a role in the Finance Department between 2004 and 2006.
Mr. Dudko has a degree from the State Marine Technical University of St. Petersburg and an MSc in Logistics, Trade and Finance from Cass Business School, London. Mr. Dudko graduated from the APM Terminals MAGNUM program, a corporate-led program in partnership with a ESADE Business School, in 2014.
Vostochnaya Stevedoring Company LLC operates on the territory of Vostochny Port. VSC is a part of Global Ports group. The terminal’s total capacity is 650,000 TEUs.
Global Ports Investments PLC is the leading operator of container terminals in the Russian market.
Global Ports’ terminals are located in the Baltic and Far East Basins, key regions for foreign trade cargo flows. Global Ports operates five container terminals in Russia (Petrolesport, First Container Terminal, Ust-Luga Container Terminal and Moby Dik in the St. Petersburg and Ust-Luga port cluster, and Vostochnaya Stevedoring Company in the Vostochny Port) and two container terminals in Finland (Multi-Link Terminals Helsinki and Multi-Link Terminals Kotka). Global Ports Group also owns Yanino Logistics Park and inland Logistika-Terminal, both located in the vicinity of St. Petersburg, and 50% of the major oil product terminal, AS Vopak E.O.S., in Estonia.