MOSCOW. Feb 19 (Interfax) – FESCO Transport Group, a subsidiary of Rosatom state nuclear energy corporation, has launched container shipping between Cambodia and Russia as part of expanding its maritime services, the company said.
The estimated transit time between Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and Vladivostok averages 12 days. The total intermodal delivery time for the first shipment from Cambodia to the final recipient in Moscow was 32 days.
The route involves shipping containers from the river port of Phnom Penh via inland waterways to the port of Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, where FESCO operates a regional hub for transshipment of cargo from Southeast Asia. The containers are consolidated at this point and transshipped onto vessels of the regular FESCO Vietnam Direct Line service, which deliver them to Commercial Port of Vladivostok (VMTP), a FESCO company.
Upon arriving at VMTP, cargo from Cambodia could be shipped to recipients in the Far East or included in through intermodal transportation for delivery to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, and other cities in Russia and the CIS using FESCO container trains.
The bulk of cargo flow from Cambodia consists primarily of light industry goods and agricultural products. The service operates in both directions, allowing for the organization of exports of Russian cargo to Cambodia via the same logistics chain.
FESCO Transportation Group, whose parent company is PJSC Far East Shipping Company (FESCO), 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.
