DGAP-News: Far Eastern Shipping Company: FESCO transportation group acquires container terminal in Novosibirsk.


EquityStory.RS, LLC-News: Far Eastern Shipping Company / Key word(s):
Miscellaneous
Far Eastern Shipping Company: FESCO transportation group acquires
container terminal in Novosibirsk.

18.06.2014 / 11:24

---------------------------------------------------------------------

 
FESCO transportation group acquires container terminal in Novosibirsk. 
FESCO transportation group has acquired a new container terminal in
Novosibirsk, near the Novosibirsk-Vostochniy station.

The total area of the container terminal which is part of transportation
complex is 15ha. The complex includes a railway transportation service with
developed track facilities. The terminal has three railways lines that can
hold container trains with up to 71 standard cars with 7 units of shunting
diesel locomotives of industrial transportation enterprise at
station Yuzhnaya.

The one-time storage capacity is 1,300 TEU and the throughput capacity is
90,000 TEU per year.
 
The terminal was acquired by Transgarant, which is part of the FESCO
transportation group. Prior to the acquisition, the terminal was used
primarily by FESCO group services. In the short term, the company plans to
establish a comprehensive service in the terminal that will include the
processing and secure storage of finished products, as well as the
operation of the container fleet designated for the transportation of
goods.
 
The acquisition of the container terminal in Novosibirsk is part of FESCO's
long-term strategy to develop a network of terminals on the East-West-East 
route, which will allow for better control of the client base and
contribute to the development of the group's intermodal container
transportation services.


End of Corporate News

---------------------------------------------------------------------

18.06.2014 Dissemination of a Corporate News, transmitted by
EquityStory.RS, LLC - a company of EQS Group AG.
The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.

EquityStory.RS, LLC's Distribution Services include Regulatory
Announcements, Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases.
Media archive at www.dgap-medientreff.de and www.dgap.de

---------------------------------------------------------------------


274199 18.06.2014
GlobeNewswire