RUSSIA transport giant fesco has deployed a 712-TEU ship to operate between Russian Black Sea Port of Novorossiysk and the Turkish Port of Gebze, 80 kilometres to the east of Istanbul , reports St Petersburg PortNews.
Capacity of the weekly FESCO Turkey Black Sea Service (FTBS) between Russia and Turkey has been increased with the deployment of a container carrier. Besides, the geography of the service has been expanded with a new port of call, Gebze, according to FESCO.
Transit from Novorossiysk to Istanbul is one to two days, to Gebze, one day more.
FESCO Turkey Black Sea (FTBS) was launched in late April 2022 for the delivery of consumer goods, domestic appliances and electronics from Turkey to Russia as well as industrial goods manufactured in Russia to Turkey. The line has already carried over 2.5 thousand TEU.
FESCO controls the Commercial Port of Vladivostok, rail operators Transgarant and Dalreftrans, operator of container platforms Russkaya Troyka, dry terminal facilities in Novosibirsk, Khabarovsk and Tomsk. FESCO operates over 100,000 containers and about 10,000 container platforms. FESCO’s fleet numbers 22 vessels deployed primarily on its own sea service lines.
