E.R. VISBY, a container carrier operated by FESCO Transport Group on December 28 arrived at the recently inaugurated Multifunctional Sea Cargo Complex Bronka (MSCC Bronka) based in Big Port St. Petersburg. This is a maiden call but in future FESCO plans to add Bronka terminal to port rotation on its regular services, the Group said Tuesday.
E.R. VISBY is deployed on a regular service FESCO ESF Service (FESF) with the following rotation: St. Petersburg - Rotterdam - Hamburg - St Petersburg. The ship docked at MSCC Bronka for loading export containers.
The maiden call of containership was also used to check the preparedness of the Bronka equipment and infrastructure to handle containerized cargo, delivered by road, and transfer loads onto container ships.
FESCO's fleet provides regular links to all key terminals in St. Petersburg. Adding Bronka terminal to its network rotation will expand the range of logistics services offered by FESCO and enhance / expedite handling operations. FESCO will continue to offer shipping services in conjunction with CMA CGM Group, which has entered into a long-term contract for handling / storage of containers at the port of Bronka.
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 D2D 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 tonnes 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 brands Transgarant (100%) and Russkaya Troika (50% JV with Russian Railways). FESCO owns and operates a fleet of 22 cargo ships and four icebreakers (in long-term time-charter).
The Multifunctional Sea Cargo Complex Bronka (MSCC Bronka) is based on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland (near junction of the Ring Road & Dam and Lomonosov). The Bronka Complex comprises three dedicated facilities: a container terminal encompassing 107 hectares, the Ro-Ro terminal of 57 ha and a logistics center of 42 ha. Container terminal will have 1.176 m-long quay wall (including 5 berths). The length of Ro-Ro terminal's dock line will be 630 meters (3 berths). After completion of Bronka Phase 1 its capacity will reach 1.45 million TEUs and 260,000 units of Ro-Ro cargoes. In future the MMPK Bronka expansion will help increase the facility's container throughput to 1.9 million TEUs. Upon completion of the port's construction and dredging to the design mark of 14,4 meters in 2015 MMPK Bronka will be able to accommodate post-Panamax containerships and the ferries of Finnstar class.