FESCO launches intermodal container shipping between Ankara, Novorossiysk

MOSCOW. April 9 (Interfax) - FESCO Transportation Group, which is under Rosatom state corporation's control, has begun performing intermodal container shipments between Ankara and Novorossiysk via the port of Gebze as part of expanding its geographic presence in Turkey, the group said.

Cargo from Ankara is delivered as part of container trains that depart weekly on the route, it said. The transit time for rail transport is one to two days. After arriving at the Turkish port of Gebze, the containers are placed on a vessel of the group, which operates on the regular FESCO Turkey Black Sea shipping line. The arrival time of the container ship at the port of Novorossiysk averages three days.

The first containers from Ankara, loaded with non-hazardous chemicals and consumer goods, have already been delivered to Novorossiysk. The first export batch will depart shortly.

FESCO Transportation Group owns assets in the port, railway and integrated logistics business. FESCO owns PJSC Commercial Port of Vladivostok, the FESCO Integrated Transport intermodal operator, the Dalreftrans refrigerated container operator, as well as the Transgarant and FESCO Trans companies.

The group manages terminal complexes in Novosibirsk, Khabarovsk, Tomsk, Vladivostok and Kaliningrad. The company manages a container fleet of over 200,000 TEU and nearly 15,000 flat cars. The group's fleet includes more than 30 vessels, which operate primarily on the company's own shipping lines. In November 2023, a controlling stake (92.5%) in Far Eastern Shipping Company (FESCO, the group's parent company) was transferred to Rosatom by a decree of the Russian president.