FESCO Transportation Group has improved the frequency of Vladivostok-Koltsovo shipments within the framework of FESCO Ural Shuttle service to 1 shipment every 5 days, the Group’s press center says.
It will let decrease cargo delivery time by 3–7 days and improve the service quality.
Fesco Ural Shuttle was arranged in June 2012. It is the first public service on transportation of containerized cargo to Koltsovo terminal in the Urals region. Throughout the operation of the service, it carried over 8,500 TEUs.
In the future FESCO plans to dispatch 2 container trains per week.
FESCO is one of the leading privately-owned transportation and logistics companies in Russia with operations in ports, rail, integrated logistics and shipping business. Diversified but integrated asset portfolio enables FESCO to provide door-to-door logistics solutions and control almost all steps of the intermodal transportation value chain. The majority of FESCO’s operations are located in the Russian Far East and the Group benefits from growing trade volumes between Russia and Asian countries.
FESCO is the leader of container transportation through the Russian Far East via international sea container lines to/from Asian countries, domestic sea container lines and by rail. FESCO is the leading port container operator in the Far East region.
FESCO controls the Commercial Port of Vladivostok which has throughput capacity of 3.9 million tons of general cargo and oil products, 150,000 vehicles and over 600,000 TEU of containers. In 2013, total container throughput at the Commercial Port of Vladivostok reached 477,000 TEU, including 204,000 TEU of imported cargo.
FESCO is among the 10 largest Russian private rail operators, providing services under "Transgarant" (100% subsidiary of FESCO) and "Russian Troika" (50% joint venture with JSC Russian Railways) brands. "Transgarant" operates a fleet of 16.1 thousand units of rolling stock, while "Russian Troika" operates a fleet of 1.7 thousand container platforms. FESCO has a fleet of 24 vessels, mostly deployed through own sea service lines, and 4 icebreakers leased under long-term contracts.