FESCO Transportation Group, whose parent company is PJSC Far East Shipping Company (FESCO), has dispatched the first container train fully loaded with 40-foot flexi-tanks from Omsk to China via Kazakhstan, as per Interfax.

The train, carrying 62 40-foot containers of rapeseed oil, departed from Karbyshevo station in Omsk on November 22. It will then transit Kazakhstan and arrive in Chengdu, China, the company said. FESCO estimates transit time at 14 days.

In August this year, FESCO developed its own flexi-tank model specifically designed to transport non-hazardous bulk cargo in forty-foot containers, and prepared local technical specifications for the placement and fastening of sealed liners in containers, the company said.

The FESCO transport group, controlled by Rosatom state nuclear energy corporation, 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 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) containers and over 15,000 flat cars. The group’s fleet includes more than 30 vessels, which operate primarily on the company’s own shipping lines. The controlling stake of 92.5% in FESCO was transferred to Rosatom as per Russian presidential decree in November 2023.
Source: Reuters