FESCO Transportation Group says it has transported over 3,000 TEU between Russia and the European countries for almost four months of since launching of its new service, FESCO European Railway Network (FERN).
The service launched in late April 2022 links Russia with the Netherlands, Germany and Italy. Container trains leave Europe every 3-4 days and come from Russia to Europe according to a weekly timetable. Transit time in both directions is 18 days and more.
Since it launching, FERN has delivered over 2,000 TEU from Tilburg (Netherlands), Milan (Italy), Duisburg and Hamburg (Germany) to Moscow (Silikatnaya station) and Saint-Petersburg (Shushary station). Exports from Russia exceeded 1,000 TEU.
Consumer goods, food, paper, etc. make the bulk of the cargo flow.
In the near time, the Group is going to expand geographic footprint of FERN by adding Yekaterinburg as a new location for shipments to Europe.
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 operators Transgarant and Dalreftrans, operator of container platforms Russkaya Troyka, dry terminal facilities in Novosibirsk, Khabarovsk and Tomsk. FESCO operates over 100,000 containers and about 9,000 container platforms. FESCO’s fleet numbers 21 vessels deployed primarily on its own sea service lines.