FESCO Transportation Group (FESCO) and logistics operator Rail Cargo Logistics – RUS organised the first transportation of canola oil in containers equipped with flexitanks, storage units that can be fit into a standard ISO container and used for the transport of a non-regulated liquid inside a container, from the Krasnoyarsk Territory to the port of Nantong (Jiangsu province, China).
The first shipment consisting of 10 containers with 216tonnes of cargo arrived in China on 17 March 2020. The transit time was 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, from where containers equipped with flexitanks were delivered to Vladivostok by the regular FESCO Yenisei Shuttle train, then by FESCO China Express regular sea line to the port of Shanghai, and after that all were loaded onto a barge and transported by river to the port of Nantong.
“In partnership 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 services through Vladivostok, as well as land routes through Mongolia and Kazakhstan’” said Maхim Sakharov, President of FESCO.
The transportation was organised with an agreement signed by FESCO, Rail Cargo Logistics – RUS and the Russian export centre at the Krasnoyarsk economic forum in 2019 and aimed at developing containerised cargo transportation from Siberia regions to China.
“The Chinese market is one of the most promising for the export of Russian goods, especially food cargo. Therefore, I am sure that the demand for transportation in flexitanks will grow in line with providing regular shipments,” said Alexander Baskakov, Director of Rail Cargo Logistics – RUS.
