FESCO VORONEZH is a container vessel of B170-V/2 series, with the specifications as follows: deadweight - 22750 tons, container capacity - 1730 TEU, length - 184,1 m, breadth 25,3 m, draught - 9,85 m, speed - 19,7 knots. The FESCO VORONEZH is equipped with three cargo cranes, ice classed as Е3 (according to the German Lloyd's) and has 200 refrigerator sockets for reefer containers.
The ceremony was attended by shipyard managers and FESCO surveyors - Vladimir Golikov, chief surveyror, Andrey Surzhenko, hull surveyor, and Sergey Varnikov, electric & machinery surveyor.
FESCO Transport Group created on the basis of Far Eastern Shipping Company is one of the leading container operators in Russia. In 2007, the Group’s throughput exceeded 2.4 million TEU.
The deadweight of the Group’s fleet exceeds 1 million tonnes. The Group’s rolling stock numbers over 17,000 units. The Group’s port transshipment facilities have the capacity exceeding 1.6 million TEU.
Besides FESCO the Group comprises National Container Company (Russia’s largest operator of container terminals co-managed the Group and First Quantum; Transgarant (one of Russia’s largest railway operators specializing in transportation of dry bulk cargo); Russkaya Troika CJSC (JV with Russian Railways OJSC, specializing in railway transportation of containers); FESCO ESF Ltd (feeder container carrier at the Baltic Sea); DalRefTrans (transportation of refrigerated cargo); Commercial Port of Vladivostok (one of the largest ports in the Far East of Russia ); FESCO Integrated Transport (the Group’s logistics operator).