A new multimodal route has been started by FESCO Transportation Group connecting Belarus to India, Vietnam and China via Saint-Petersburg. In the initial part of the journey cargoes are transported by railway from Vitebsk to port station Avtovo in Saint-Petersburg. From here on the sea journey starts wherein, containers are loaded onto FESCO’s ships and transported to Nhava Sheva port and Chinese port of Richjao, Lianyungang, Shanghai, Ningbo, and Yantian. The entire intermodal transportation takes about 50 days, according to FESCO.
Loading of ships returning to Saint-Petersburg is foreseen by the route. Besides cargo can be delivered to the Vietnamese port of Haiphong and other countries of the South-Asia Region with a transshipment in the port of Ningbo.
The first container train loaded with 80 TEU of sawn timber left Vitebsk on 20 June 2023 and arrived in Saint-Petersburg on June 22. The batch of cargo was then dispatched by Fesco ship on June 30. The containers are expected to arrive in Shanghai on August 9.
“The new intermodal route is primarily focused on manufacturers in the Republic of Belarus, who can transport their goods at an attractive cost and in optimal time due to a small railway leg, while bypassing the overloaded Eastern Polygon, by FESCO’s own services, within which we provide clients with a guaranteed space on our ships,” said German Maslov, Vice President, Linear and Logistics Division, FESCO.
