FESСO to build new railway container terminal in Moscow region
In 2007, FESСO Transport Group plans construction of a railway container terminal in Moscow region, Siman Povareonkin, chairman of FESCO BOD, told at a press conference yesterday, RZD-Partner reports.
Lack of own railway container terminals in Moscow is the Group’s weak place, Povareonkin says.
FESCO Transport Group is created on the basis of Far Eastern Shipping Company - one of the largest and oldest transport companies in Russia, founded in 1880. The strategy of group development is aimed at turning FESCO into an integrated multimodal transportation & logistics company, offering its clients a complete set of services for "door to door" delivery of containers and bulked cargos both on the domestic market and between Russia, Europe and South-East Asia. Today the group comprises Far Eastern Shipping Company; Transgarant (one of Russia’s largest railway operators specializing in transportation of dry bulk cargo); Russkaya Troika CJSC (JV with Russian Railways OJSC, specializing in railway transportation of containers); National Container Company (leader at Russian market of container terminals); partnership project with First Quantum; TIS (covering 30% of Transsib container transportations); Inkotek-Trans-Servis (container transportation in the North-West region of Russia); DalRefTrans (transportation of refrigerated cargo); vast network of agent companies covering Russia, CIS, Asia and Europe.