Marine services

Far-Eastern Shipping Company (FESCO) PLC — base company of FESCO Transportation Group — is Russia's 3rd largest ship-owning company and the largest non-oil cargo carrier. FESCO fleet consists of 67 vessels with total deadweight more than 900 thousand tones, operating in almost every part of the World Ocean.

Today FESCO's container lines link ports of USA (both East and West coasts), Canada, South-East Asia, Korea, Japan, China, Vietnam and North-West Europe (Baltic countries, Poland, Germany, Finland and etc.) with each other and with European and Far Eastern ports of Russia.

FESCO is one of the main carriers in Far East basin of the Pacific. Our fleet is enabled to provide cargo transportation in ports with limited navigation period, including unloading operations to non-facilitated shore. In 2006 FESCO's fleet carried 60% of coastal and 40% of international container shipping in Far East.

FESCO is the biggest operator of Russian ice-breaking fleet. Strengthened ice-classed vessels and ice-breakers can not only carry cargo but provide ice escorting ot other vessels in hard-to-reach areas of Arctic and Antarctic. FESCO's ice fleet supplies all-year round safe operating of oil deriving platform in Sakhalin as well as tankers escorting.

All of the company's vessels fully meet the international standards of safety and quality. In accordance with the requirements of the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code (ISPS Code), each vessel is equipped with an automatic identification system.

Marine services