FESCO Transportation Group and logistics operator Rail Cargo Logistics – RUS have announced the organisation of canola oil to be transported in containers equipped with flexitanks, from the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Russia, to the port of Nantong, Jiangsu province, China.
The first shipment consisted of 10 containers with 216 tons of cargo which arrived in China on Tuesday, March 17, totalling a transit time of 35 days.
The transportation scheme included the following stages: truck transportation of oil from enterprises in the Krasnoyarsk Territory to the BLTK terminal in Krasnoyarsk where containers equipped with flexitanks were delivered to Vladivostok by the FESCO Yenisei Shuttle train. Following this, the containers were transported via FESCO China Express regular sea line to the port of Shanghai, where they were loaded onto a barge and transported by river to the port of Nantong.
The transportation was organised within the agreement signed by FESCO, Rail Cargo Logistics – RUS and the Russian export centre at the Krasnoyarsk economic forum in 2019. The aims to develop containerised cargo transportation from Siberia regions to China.
“Partnering with Rail Cargo Logistics – RUS, we are planning to develop export transportation of bulk cargo in containers equipped with flexitanks from other regions of Russia using our services through Vladivostok, as well as land routes through Mongolia and Kazakhstan”, said Maхim Sakharov, President of FESCO.
Source: FESCO
