April 26 2024

The vessel will operate on the route from the ports of China and India to St. Petersburg via the Suez Canal

The FESCO transport group included Kapitan Maslov, a new container ship  into its fleet. The length of the vessel is 172 m, width – 32.2 m, deadweight – 31.4 thousand tons, cargo capacity – 2471 TEU. The crew consists of 19 people, the group’s press service reports.

The vessel has become the final in a series of six modern container ships built at the shipyard in China for FESCO. Previously, the group included the same type of vessels in its fleet: Kapitan Shchetinina, Moskva, Sankt-Petersburg, Kapitan Abonosimov, Kapitan Miskov.

Kapitan Maslov will replace another motor ship with the same name, which has operated in the FESCO fleet for more than 20 years. The new vessel will serve the FESCO Baltorient Line, operating along the route through the Suez Canal from the ports of China and India to St. Petersburg and back. The container ship is currently waiting to call at the Chinese port of Ningbo, where after loading operations it will set off on its first voyage.

The ship was named in honor of the sea captain of the Far Eastern Shipping Company (the parent company of FESCO), Hero of Socialist Labor Semyon Maslov.

The FESCO transport group is one of the largest transport and logistics companies in Russia with assets in the port, railway and integrated logistics business. The group owns Vladivostok Sea Commercial Port, FESCO Integrated Transport intermodal operator, Dalreftrans refrigerated container operator, Transgarant and FESCO Trans companies. The group operates terminal complexes in Novosibirsk, Khabarovsk, Tomsk and Vladivostok. FESCO’s container fleet amounts to more than 170 thousand TEU, the number of fitting platforms exceeds 13 thousand units. The fleet includes more than 30 transport vessels under management, which carry out transportation mainly on their own shipping lines.

Source: https://portnews.ru/news/362405/