Vladivostok Port first-quarter container volume up 2 percent to 98,66 TEUs
Total container traffic at Commercial Seaport of Vladivostok (including Vladivostok Container statistics) in the first quarter of 2012 was 98,66 TEUs, a 2-percent gain from the same period last year, FESCO Group said.
Handling of non-containerized cargo for the period increased by 25% to 926,900 tons.
Commercial Seaport of Vladivostok, member of FESCO Transport Group, owns and operates its assets at the port of Vladivostok, a premier Russian seaport in the Far East region. Port of Vladivostok encompasses 55 ha, over 14 km of waterfront featuring 17 berths with terminals for handling grain, containers, imported vehicles, as well as a passenger terminal. In 2011, CPV’s cargo throughput fell 7.8% year-over-year to 6.38 million tons.
FESCO Transportation Group, created on the basis of Far Eastern Shipping Company (FESCO), is a leading Russian integrated transport and logistics company providing a broad range of services for door-to-door cargo delivery using its own transport facilities to ensure guaranteed quality and reliability of the services. The Group owns a fleet of more than 900,000 DWT and operates a diversified fleet of over 19,000 units of rolling stock. FESCO’s own container fleet is about 50,000 TEUs. The Group’s total cargo throughput at the port facilities reaches 430,000 TEUs and 6 million tons of general cargo a year.
FESCO Group comprises FESCO Shipping, Transgarant (a major Russian railway operator), Russian Troika (an operator of rail container transport, a JV of FESCO and RZD), FESCO ESF Ltd (feeder container carrier in the Baltic Sea), Dalreftrans (operator of reefer container transport), Commercial Seaport of Vladivostok, Vladivostok Container Terminal, and FESCO Integrated Transport.