OREANDA-NEWS. Petropavlovsk PLC wishes to notify that IRC Limited ("IRC") has today announced that it has completed the sale of it's Amur River bridge subsidiary LLC Rubicon, as announced in October 2014, to Russian and Chinese development funds for cash consideration of RUB174 million (c.USD 3.9 million).

The sale will ensure the quickest possible construction timetable for this new Sino-Russian trade link across the Amur/Heilongjiang River. IRC will benefit from a shorter and lower-cost route to market, whilst IRC's customers in north-eastern China will benefit from access to more frequent deliveries and a shorter-route to their operations than available from the traditional sea ports, lowering their working capital costs.