Transport Group FESCO launches a regular container service Vostochny-Novosibirsk, the Group’s press center reports. On April 9, 2008, TIS and FLV companies (part of FESCO linear-logistics division) dispatched the first container train from Nakhodka-vostochnaya-exportnaya (port Vostochny) to – Novosibirsk vostochny (Novosibirsk). It is the first train within the framework of a regular ser to be known as FESCO Siberian Shuttle.
The service will be used for transportation of 20-feet and 40-feet containers (up to 132 TEU) with cargo cleared by customs or transported under customs control.
According to Sergei Kostyan, Vice-President of FESCO on linear-logistics division, the service is to improve commercial attractiveness of transportation by regular container trains. It will optimize the logistics through cutting the time needed for forming of batches as well as rolling stock idle time, reduction of transportation prices, decrease of transit time and avoidance of container sorting during transportation.