Jingling Shipyard (Nanking, China) has delivered the new container vessel FESCO Anadyr. The capacity of the ship is 1,080 TEU. This is the fifth in the series of six vessels ordered by FESCO at Jingling.
Galina Victorovna ZATSEPINA, the spouse of Mr. Sergey GUSCHIN, the Deputy General Director of FESCO on railroad operations, became the ship's godmother. The new vessel was named after two ships that were in the company's fleet under the name "Anadyr," the company reports.
The first FESCO vessel with the name Anadyr was a passenger steamer, which was in operation from 1932 till 1965. Another vessel with this name was a CA-15 ice class cargo motor ship, which was built by a Finnish shipyard in 1983. The company operated the ship till 2000.
The new FESCO Anadyr is equipped with 220 reefer plugs to transport frozen cargoes. The ship is highly automated with no-man engine room. The container vessel is equipped with two electro-hydraulic cranes with the capacity of 40 tons each, a high-capacity power unit.
The new vessel was built one and a half months ahead of the contract date. When the new vessel is put into operation, the company's container fleet will consist of 25 ships with the total container capacity of 23,406 TEU.
The company has invested 270 million USD in building new vessels this year. The portfolio of contracts for construction of new vessels includes eight more ships:
1) another container ship with the capacity of 1,080 TEU, which is being built at Jingling Shipyard;
2) three container vessels with the capacity of 1,730 TEU and four container vessels with the capacity of 3,091 TEU, which Stocznia Szczecinska Nowa Shipyard (Poland) is currently building.
All these vessels will join the FESCO fleet by the end of 2009. The container capacity of the fleet will amount to 50,000 TEU.
In the next three years the FESCO container fleet will mainly consist of new speedy ships that fit best for Russian ports. As the company closes charter contracts, the ships will be put to service on its own lines.
The company's marine container shipment volumes are growing steadily: from 310.6 TEU in 2006 to the expected figure of 420 TEU in 2007. Intensive renovation and simultaneous increase of the number and capacity of container vessels is a part of the company's intermodal business strategy.
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