Vostochnaya Stevedoring Company LLC (part of Global Ports Group) in conjunction with Baltic Refrigerator Company LLC launched a new regular service to handle high-capacity reefer containers, the Group’s press release said.
The first two reefer trains originating in Predportovaya station in St. Petersburg bound to Nakhodka East were handled at the VSC container terminal in late November. Most of reefer containers carrying frozen meat are consigned to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski. Some of the cargo is designated for consignees in Nakhodka and Vladivostok. Reefer containers will be carried by sea to the ports of Sakhalin and Kamchatka by a partner in the project – coastal line Kamchatka Lines LLC operating at the VSC terminal.
In the return direction VSC terminal handles containers loaded with fish products of companies from Sakhalin, Kamchatka and Primorye. Reefer trains move in perishable goods transportation mode (at a high speed) to Khabarovsk, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Saint Petersburg. In the future for convenience of the customers the company will organize a service that will allow to perform GPS monitoring of container movement along the itinerary and to perform remote status monitoring of the refrigeration system.
In the future the company plans to expand the service: high-capacity reefer containers will be dispatched from the stations in Sverdlovsk, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk and Khabarovsk for subsequent handling at the VSC terminal and transportation by sea to Kamchatka and Sakhalin.
Vostochnaya Stevedoring Company LLC is the largest container terminal in the Far East of Russia operating in the premises of the Vostochny Port. Global Ports Group holds a 75 percent stake in company, 25% of shares owned by a port operator DPW,