M/V FESCO Primorye commences operation at FESCO’s short sea service
M/V FESCO Primorye has commenced operation at FESCO’s short sea service. According to the press release of FESCO Transportation Group, the vessel joined the Group’s fleet in last September (former name Malachite).
Upon completion of the repair works and renaming of the vessel in early March 2014, she commenced operations at the short sea line Vladivostok – Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
FESCO Primorye can carry general, dry bulk cargo and containers. The vessel’s ice class enables her to operate at freezing ports. FESCO Primorye equipped with two 50-tonne electrohydraulic cranes is able to carry out discharge over undeveloped beaches.
«Thus, FESCO now has its own full-strength short sea unit with sister ships FESCO Pevek, FESCO Posiet, FESCO Pioneer and FESCO Primorye», the statement says.
FESCO Transportation Group is one of Russia’s largest intermodal transportation companies providing a full range of logistical solutions through a combination of shipping, rail, trucking and port services offered to clients through a world-wide network of sales offices. FESCO provides services in transportation of containers, general cargo, project cargoes and automobiles.
FESCO Group owns Commercial Port of Vladivostok OJSC with annual throughput capacity of 3.9 mln t of general cargo and oil products, 150,000 automobiles and vehicles, over 600,000 TEUs of containerized cargo. FESCO is one of Russia’s 10 largest private railway operators. It is known under the brands of Transgarant (100% subsidiary of FESCO) and Russkaya Troyka (50% joint venture with Russian Railways OJSC).
