The MV Pioneer of Kyrgyzstan owned by FESCO Transport Group turned out to be the first Russian merchant vessel that visited ever the Japanese port of Wakkanai, FESCO said.
The Pioneer Kyrgyzstan has been operating on the FESCO’s Korsakov Sakhalin Line (FKSL), the service connecting the Korean port of Busan and Sakhalin ports of Kholmsk and Korsakov.
However, in pursuit of further development of the line service, expanding its geography and increasing traffic, and in line the agreements reached with the City of Wakkanai, its business community, the company has made some changes in the port calls schedule.
During a ceremony marking the arrival of the FESCO ship Wakkanai Mayor Hiroshi Kudo expressed hopes that through the joint efforts of FESCO Transport Group and the Japanese company Iino Koun Co., Ltd, which has become a partner of FESCO in the project on behalf of the municipality, Wakkanai will become a permanent port of call not only for Russian fishing boats but also for merchant ships.
FESCO Transport Group is a leading Russian integrated transport and logistics company. The Group owns a fleet of more than 800,000DWT to carry 18,000 TEUs. The Group manages a diversified fleet of its own railway rolling stock of over 17,000 units. Its own container fleet is about 50,000 TEUs. The total container and general cargo throughput of the Group’s port facilities reaches 290,000 TEUs and 7,5 million tons, respectively.
FESCO Group comprises FESCO Shipping, Transgarant (a major Russian railway operator), Russian Troika (an operator of rail container transport, a JV of FESCO and RZD), FESCO ESF Ltd (feeder container carrier in the Baltic Sea), Dalreftrans (operator of reefer container transport), Commercial Seaport of Vladivostok, Vladivostok Container Terminal, and FESCO Integrated Transport.