The new chairman was appointed during the meeting of the Board of Directors of RZD Logistics on 5 July. For the second year in a row Petr Baskakov, CEO of JSC TransContainer, has become Chairman of the Board.

Ahead of the meeting of the Board of Directors the following members of the Board of RZDL were appointed at the annual general meeting of shareholders held on 27 June:

• Gennadiy Bessonov, Secretary General, International Association Coordinating Council on Transsiberian Transportation
• Petr Baskakov, CEO, TransContainer
• Ruslan Valeev, Deputy Head of the subsidiaries and affiliates department, Russian Railways
• Valeriy Veremeev, Advisor to the President, Russian Railways
• Elena Kunaeva, CEO of Corporate Transportation Service Center, Russian Railways
• Aleksandr Ananyev, Head of Economics division of Budgeting and Planning department, Russian Railways
• Aleksey Kamenobrodskiy, Head of Center of Business Process Management, Russian Railways
• Aleksandr Petrov, Advisor to CEO, Transles Ltd.
• Pavel Sokolov, CEO, Russian Railways Logistics

(Source: RZD)