The FESCO Transportation Group (FESCO) has launched a new regular train from St. Petersburg to Moscow.
The FESCO Neva – Moscow Shuttle will depart once a week from one of the marine terminals at the Port of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region and will arrive at the Beliy Rast station in Moscow. The journey is said to take around 8 hours and trains will run along the mainline within the framework of the JSC “Russian Railway” formation plan.
The first train loaded with 59 forty-foot containers departed on 3 January 2022. The containers being carried arrived from Qingdao Port in China on the FESCO Uliss bulk carrier.
“This is the fifth train service of FESCO from St. Petersburg – regular dispatches to Vladivostok, Novosibirsk, Khabarovsk and Irkutsk are also available,” the group said in a statement.
This new service primarily focuses on the transportation of imported goods arriving at the Port of St. Petersburg.
FESCO also recently launched its West Gate Bridge Intermodal service from countries of the Asia-Pacific region.
The service includes marine shipment by regular FESCO lines from the Asia-Pacific region to the Commercial Port of Vladivostok and then by a regular train to Kaliningrad. After this, containers are to be loaded onto vessels at the Baltic Stevedoring Company terminal and sent to ports in Europe.
According to a statement from operator, the regularity of shipments will be two to four times per month and transit is estimated to be 36 days, almost 1.5 times faster than the alternative route via the Suez Canal.
