January 19 2022
The FESCO transport group organized the delivery of heavy equipment for the construction of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant (NPP) in the Republic of Turkey. Cargo ship “Viking” with eight sets of hydraulic tanks of the passive core flooding system (one of the most important elements of the NPP safety system) weighing 83 tons each and the upper unit with a reactor cover weighing 104 tons arrived from the port of Rostov-on-Don to the cargo terminal Vostochny at the beginning of January 2022. The total weight of the delivered cargo was 948 tons.
FESCO specialists, with direct participation and control by specialists of the department of transport and warehouse logistics and customs clearance of “AKKUYU NUCLEAR JSC” (a subsidiary of the “Rosatom” State Corporation, is responsible for the construction and subsequent operation of the Akkuyu NPP), ensured the transshipment of cargo items from the ship to vehicles using two mobile cranes Liebherr LG-1750 with a lifting capacity of 750 tons and Liebherr LTM-1120 with a lifting capacity of 120 tons, as well as transportation and placement of equipment in temporary storage facility at the NPP construction site.
In September 2021, within the framework of the Eastern Economic Forum, FESCO and “AKKUYU NUCLEAR JSC” entered into an agreement for the provision of a range of logistics services at the Vostochny terminal for handling cargo delivered by sea as part of the NPP construction project. According to the agreement, FESCO acts as a logistics operator for the Vostochny cargo terminal.
Akkuyu NPP is the world’s first project in the nuclear industry implemented by “Rosatom” according to the BOO (build-own-operate) model. The Akkuyu NPP project includes four power units with Russian VVER generation III+ reactors with increased safety and improved technical and economic characteristics. The capacity of each NPP power unit will be 1,200 MW.
FESCO Transport Group is one of the largest private transport and logistics companies in Russia with assets in the field of port, rail and integrated logistics business. FESCO’s diversified portfolio of assets allows for door-to-door delivery of goods and control of all stages of the intermodal transport chain. The Group owns the Commercial Sea Port of Vladivostok, the railway operators “Transgarant” and “Dalreftrans”, dry terminal complexes in Novosibirsk, Khabarovsk and Tomsk. The Group manages more than 8,000 fitting platforms, and container assets of more than 100,000 TEU. The FESCO fleet includes 21 transport vessels, which mainly carry out transportation on the company’s sea lines.
Source: https://portnews.ru/news/324038/