FESCO's icebreaker "Krasin" to assist shipping along the NSR
FESCO (part of FESCO Group) owned icebreaker "Krasin", on July 10 departed the homeport of Vladivostok and is due to set sail for the eastern Arctic region, the shipping company said.
The ship will be deployed to provide icebreaking assistance to merchant vessels, carrying general cargo and containers to the ports of destination in northern Chukotka and Yakutia, under the contract with the Federal Agency for Maritime and River Transport of Russia (Rosmorrechflot).
The shipping season starts on July 25, 2014 but under the requests of shipowners the company decided to start the navigation in the Arctic five days earlier.
The Krasin will be escorting cargo ships along the Northern Sea Route from July 20 July until the beginning of November, 2014.
Overall, the shipping company plans for the summer-autumn season 2014 to deploy in the Arctic ten cargo ships with RS class notation Arc 4 and above.
About FESCO
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 controls the Commercial Port of Vladivostok, which has throughput capacity of 3.9 million tons for general cargo and oil products, 150,000 vehicles and over 600,000 TEUs in containers. FESCO is one of Russia’s top 10 private railcar operators providing services under the Transgarant (100%) and Russkaya Troika (50% JV with Russian Railways) brands. The Group owns a fleet of vessels mostly deployed through its own line and logistics operations.