A new vessel joined the FESCO fleet on September 22
As the press service of FESCO informed the Russian Informational Agency PrimaMedia, the container vessel is named after one of the first cargo-and-passenger ships of Dobrovolny fleet, Aleut. The 560-tonnage ship constructed in Norway in 1886 was working in Dobrofleet since 1917 to 1924 along the Primorye coast.
Tamara GILYOVA, the spouse of the director of the FESCO Lines Hong Kong Agency Company became godmother of the new vessel FESCO Aleut. “I wish the vessel to have force and luck, to stand any storm, to keep the cargo carefully, and always to arrive at a port of destination,” the godmother said.
The container capacity of the vessel is 1080 units in 20-feet equivalent. For transportation of chilled cargo the vessel has a capacity of 220 refrigerating containers connection. The ship has the highest class of automation, which allows the free of watch engine-room service. The container vessel is equipped with two 40-tonn electric-hydraulic cranes, a powerful electric installation, and the propulsion and supporting engines are constructed for working on heavy fuel oil.
FESCO Aleut is the second ship in the series of the fast container vessels built for FESCO in the Ginling shipyard. Moreover, it is the fifth container vessel, which joined the company’s fleet in 2006. Besides the vessels if Chinese build, this year the fleet enlarged with three container vessels from the German shipyard Aker in the City of Wismar.
FESCO is one of the biggest and oldest Russian transport companies; it celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2005.
The shipping company makes cargo transportation between the ports of the Far East, Chucotka, Sakhalin, and Kamchatka, along with the ports of the South Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand, and the USA. It also provides ice breaking for ships in the region of the Russian Far East, eastern sector of the Arctic, Baltic basin, and the Antarctic. It also serves the biggest oil-and-gas companies in the Far East.
