On 17 August, Supervisory Board of the port approved early termination of labor contract with General Director Roman Kukharuk
Vladimir Korchanov, Head of FESCO Transportation Group’s sea division has been appointed Acting Head of Commercial Port of Vladivostok PJSC (CPV, a company of FESCO) from 19 August 2021. According to FESCO’s press release, the decision was made by the Supervisory Board of CPV.
“On August 17, 2021 the Supervisory Board of CPV approved early termination of employment agreement with Roman Kukharuk, Director General of the Port, and adopted a decision on appointment of Vladimir Korchanov, who currently heads the Marine Division of the Group, interim acting Head of Commercial Port of Vladivostok. As part of the altered FESCO team Roman Kukharuk proved to be a professional and anti-crisis manager, directly involved in the formation and implementation of the new development strategy of the enterprise. He successfully coped with the set tasks: CPV operates steadily and continues to take leading positions on the market, the team is preserved and demonstrates high results, closer integration with the structures of FESCO has already had a favorable impact on operational and financial indicators. We thank Roman for accomplished work and wish him good luck in his new independent projects,” Andrey Severilov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of FESCO noted.
Vladimir Korchanov has been with FESO for over 30 years rising through the ranks from master's mate to First Vice-President of the Group. He graduated from the Nevelskoy Maritime State University as Navigation Engineer. Marked by several departmental awards.
FESCO Transportation Group is one of the leading public 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. FESCO controls the Commercial Port of Vladivostok, rail operator Transgarant and operator of container platforms Russkaya Troyka. FESCO operates dry terminal facilities in Novosibirsk, Khabarovsk and Tomsk. FESCO operates 40,000 containers and 6,000 container platforms. FESCO’s fleet numbers 18 vessels deployed primarily on its own sea service lines.