A FESCO Group’s unitrain that arrived yesterday at the Buslovskaya station of OZD has launched a joint FESCO and Nurminen Logistics’ multimodal service to carry containers from Finland to China, the press-service of Far East Shipping Company (a FESCO’s arm) reported.
The unitrain of 38-80-foot container platforms owned by TransGarant Company laden with industrial goods from Finland, was sent from the Hamina station (Finland) to the port of destination Vostochny. At the Port’s terminal the cargo will be loaded onto FESCO’s container carriers to be delivered to China, Taiwan and Korea, the FESCO press release said.
FESCO has been implementing its intermodal logistics project for speed container trains launched in 2007. The transport Group managed to get permission to load containers on the platform in a special way significantly reducing the time of customs inspection. FESCO Integrated Transport, the freight service forwarder service said it would bear responsibility for the safety and security of containers.
The train is expected to cover the Trans-Siberian in nine days. The main competitive advantages of the new project for the client is the principle of "one window" when selling complex services, a guaranteed provision of the rolling stock and containers, and significant reduction of transit time compared with ocean services.
FESCO transport group founded on the bases of the Far East Shipping Company (FESCO), is a leading Russian container operator. The Group owns a 1m DWT fleet of container capacity of 32,843 TEUs. FESCO manages a diversified fleet of its own rolling stock of more than 17,000 units. The Company’s own container fleet accounts over 50,000 TEUs. The total handling facilities throughput exceeds 1,6 million TEUs.
The unitrain of 38-80-foot container platforms owned by TransGarant Company laden with industrial goods from Finland, was sent from the Hamina station (Finland) to the port of destination Vostochny. At the Port’s terminal the cargo will be loaded onto FESCO’s container carriers to be delivered to China, Taiwan and Korea, the FESCO press release said.
FESCO has been implementing its intermodal logistics project for speed container trains launched in 2007. The transport Group managed to get permission to load containers on the platform in a special way significantly reducing the time of customs inspection. FESCO Integrated Transport, the freight service forwarder service said it would bear responsibility for the safety and security of containers.
The train is expected to cover the Trans-Siberian in nine days. The main competitive advantages of the new project for the client is the principle of "one window" when selling complex services, a guaranteed provision of the rolling stock and containers, and significant reduction of transit time compared with ocean services.
FESCO transport group founded on the bases of the Far East Shipping Company (FESCO), is a leading Russian container operator. The Group owns a 1m DWT fleet of container capacity of 32,843 TEUs. FESCO manages a diversified fleet of its own rolling stock of more than 17,000 units. The Company’s own container fleet accounts over 50,000 TEUs. The total handling facilities throughput exceeds 1,6 million TEUs.