FESCO’s diesel-electric ship Vasiliy Golovnin completed its expedition to Antarctica
It was the second voyage under the five-year contract for supply of Antarctic stations
Vasiliy Golovnin, a diesel-electric ship of FESCO Transportation Group, completed the expedition to Antarctica having delivered cargo to two Indian and one Belgian research stations, says FESCO.
It is the second voyage under the five-year contract for supply of Antarctic stations concluded with the National Center for Polar and Oceanic Research of the Ministry of Earth Sciences of India (NCPOR). The previous contract was signed for a three-year period.
The Vasiliy Golovnin left for the voyage on 20 January 2023 and returned to the port of Cape Town (Republic of South Africa) on April 4. The ship delivered fuel, food and polar explorers to replace their colleagues at Indian stations Bharati and Maitri and made a call at the Belgium station Princess Elisabeth. The Vasiliy Golovnin also took over 100 tonnes of domestic and technical waste from the stations.
FESCO has extensive work experience in Antarctica and has repeatedly participated in state projects related to supply of research stations of the USA, Australia, Great Britain, Chile and Argentina.
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 130,000 containers and about 10,000 container platforms. FESCO’s fleet numbers 25 vessels deployed primarily on its own sea service lines.
