Overseas shipping of exported and imported containers by FESCO Group in January-September 2011 rose by 28.2 percent on last year’s figures, to 282,359 TEU, the transport group said.
Short sea container trade declined by 6.9% , to 45,830 TEU, while intermodal shipments soared by 52% to 52,269 TEU, the report says.
Shipments of refrigerated cargo surged 57.4% from a year earlier, to 90,521 TEUs. The volume of rail container traffic rose by 34.5%, to 185,788 TEU. The nine-month volume containers handled by Commercial Sea Port of Vladivostok (CPV), including throughput of VCT, was 369,314 TEU, a 27.94 percent gain over the same period of 2010.
Industrial goods hauled by railway reached 25.9 billion t/km, or 0.9% below last year’s numbers. The volume of loading totaled 19.24 million tons (+5.5%). Shipments of general and bulk cargo from CPV terminals amounted to 2,189,471 tons, down 35% due to the ongoing process of shifting to higher-yielding cargo - containers and wheeled vehicles. Transshipment of wheeled vehicles increased by 19 percent to 66,551 units.
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.
Short sea container trade declined by 6.9% , to 45,830 TEU, while intermodal shipments soared by 52% to 52,269 TEU, the report says.
Shipments of refrigerated cargo surged 57.4% from a year earlier, to 90,521 TEUs. The volume of rail container traffic rose by 34.5%, to 185,788 TEU. The nine-month volume containers handled by Commercial Sea Port of Vladivostok (CPV), including throughput of VCT, was 369,314 TEU, a 27.94 percent gain over the same period of 2010.
Industrial goods hauled by railway reached 25.9 billion t/km, or 0.9% below last year’s numbers. The volume of loading totaled 19.24 million tons (+5.5%). Shipments of general and bulk cargo from CPV terminals amounted to 2,189,471 tons, down 35% due to the ongoing process of shifting to higher-yielding cargo - containers and wheeled vehicles. Transshipment of wheeled vehicles increased by 19 percent to 66,551 units.
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.