FESCO Transportation Group is expanding the geography of transit routes and is launching a regular intermodal container service FESCO West Gate Bridge from countries of the Asia-Pacific region to ports of Europe via Vladivostok and Kaliningrad.
The service includes marine shipment by regular FESCO lines from the Asia-Pacific region to Commercial Port of Vladivostok, a part of the FESCO Group), then by a regular train to Kaliningrad. After that, the containers will be loaded onto vessels at terminal of the Baltic Stevedoring Company, a part of the NCSP Group and sent to ports in Europe.
FESCO also plans to develop transportations in the region through the newly opened TLC East-West.
Regularity of shipments will be 2-4 times per month. Estimated transit time – 36 days, which is almost 1.5 times faster than the alternative route via the Suez Canal. The basis of cargo flow of the new service is wide range cargo – from consumer goods to equipment.
First train consisting of 50 forty-foot containers was dispatched from Vladivostok in December.
FESCO is one of the leading transportation and logistics companies in Russia operating a variety of assets including ports, terminals, vessel fleet, rolling stock and more. The company provides door-to-door services and controls all steps of the intermodal transportation chain. It actively works in the Russian Far East and contributing to the growing trade between Russia and Asian countries.
FESCO is the leader of container transportation through the Russian Far East to/from Asian countries as well as domestic sea and rail transportation. It is also the leading port operator of the Russian Far East.
FESCO controls the Commercial Port of Vladivostok, the major port in the Russian Far East that handles 11,4 million tonnes of cargo, 2000 ships, and 200 000 wagons per year. The company is one of the largest Russian private rail operators that provides services via its subsidiaries Transgarant and Russkaya Troika. FESCO operates more than 8 000 units of rolling stock including 5 000 container platforms. It has more than 94 500 TEU in container park, and 21 ships with the overall capacity of 24 000 TEU and 345 000 tonnes of deadweight constitute FESCO’s vessel fleet.