FESCO’s "Amderma" completes expedition to three Antarctic stations of Australia
Far Eastern Shipping Company (FESCO) motor ship “Amderma”, who is in freight of Australian Antarctic division, completed expedition to the South Pole, the motor ship delivered goods and members of a polar expedition to three national scientific stations, as the press secretary of the shipping company Lina SHAROVA reported to RIA Novosti on Monday.
The motor ship “Amderma” will go to Antarctica on the 18 of January from the Australian sea port Hobart, where it took on the board 19 members of a polar expedition and large lot of essential goods. The crew delivered goods and scientists to the Antarctic stations of Australia by turn – to Casey, Davis and Moeson.
“On Sunday the crew of “Amderma” completed terminal operations on the third Australian station Moeson and headed for the port Hobart, where it is planning to arrive on the 6 of March. During the expedition more than thousand tons of different goods were delivered to three polar stations: fuel in barrels, provisions, scientific equipment,” the member of the agency said.
According to her the expedition was carried out in extremes. There were icebergs in the way of the ship, that’s why it had to about-ship and to skirt these large floating “mountains”. More than once storm caught the ship, snowfall with strong wind.
Far Eastern Shipping Company has wide experience in working within the Polar circle, in the eastern part of the Arctic, in Antarctica. During more than 50 years of work in polar stations crews of the FESCO ships unload goods to the ice and unequipped shore. Crews delivered goods for Soviet and Russian members of a polar expeditions, conducted expeditions to the Antarctic stations of USA, Australia.
The motor ship “Amderma” was taken to the time charter by the Australian Antarctic division for the first time. Earlier expeditions to the South Pole from Australia were conducted by the FESCO diesel-electric ship “Vasiliy Golovnin” during three navigations. Now this ship is in the time charter of the Argentina and delivers goods and members of a polar expedition to four stations of this Latin American country.