Vessels of FESCO’s Ro-Ro Line will conduct regular sailings from Japanese port Hamada to the port of Vladivostok. These will be two-weekly calls, the Group’s press release said. The first call to the Japanese port was made last week by FESCO’s M/V Uelen.
The new service launch is possible thanks to the cooperation agreement signed between FESCO Integrated Transport and Japanese Light International Business (LIB) Corporation.
The FESCO Ro-Ro Line will be serviced by four ship : FESCO Uelen, FESCO Nikolay, FESCO Ulan-Ude and FESCO Gavriil.
Ports of calls - Yokohama, Kobe, Osaka, Toyama, Shanghai, Tyantszyn, Masan, Vladivostok, and Hamada.
Transportation Group FESCO, created on the basis of the Far Eastern Shipping Company (FESCO), is a leading Russian integrated transport and logistics company providing a broad range of services for door-to-door cargo delivery using its own transport facilities to ensure guaranteed quality and reliability of services. The Group owns a fleet of 44 vessels of total 788,000 DWT and operates a fleet of over 19,000 rail cars. The Group’s total cargo throughput at the port and rail facilities reaches 450,000 TEUs, 5 million tons of bulk cargo and 100,000 units of vehicles a year. FESCO offers services to Russian and international customers through its own sales network in Russia and 15 countries worldwide. FESCO’s H1 2012 consolidated revenue was $583 million.