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- Far-Eastern Shipping Company PLC (FESH.ME) operates as a leading Russian transport and logistics provider, integrating sea, rail, road, and port infrastructure to deliver comprehensive intermodal solutions for containers, general cargo, project cargo, vehicles, and wheeled equipment. The company offers container transportation via foreign trade sea lines to Asia, coastal sea lines, and rail services; Ro-Ro shipping; multimodal logistics including land transport, customs clearance, less-than-container load shipments, warehousing, and IT integration; project logistics; rail transportation; sea freight and ship chartering; vessel management and agency services; port operations such as stevedoring and cargo handling at facilities including the Commercial Port of Vladivostok (capacity exceeding 878,000 TEU, 13 million tons of cargo, and 82,000 vehicles annually), container terminals in Vladivostok, Novosibirsk, Khabarovsk, and Tomsk (total over 184,000 TEU), and the Kaliningradskiy Sea Fishing Port (over 1 million tons general cargo, 150,000 tons fish products, 350,000 tons petroleum); bunkering services; and a fleet of over 30 transport vessels, 200,000 TEU capacity, 15,000 fitting platforms, and 350 trucks. Founded in 1880 and headquartered in Vladivostok, the company concentrates operations in Russia's Far East while serving international routes across Asia-Pacific, Europe, CIS, China, India, Southeast Asia, and key corridors like China-Moscow (25 days transit); it leads in Far Eastern container transport by sea and rail, with agent networks in major Southeast Asian ports. In 2024, Far-Eastern Shipping expanded its fleet with two new container vessels for domestic Far East routes and the international FESCO Baltorient Line (FBOL); acquired 11 rail-mounted gantry cranes, boosting Vladivostok port capacity by 25% to 56 units; set a record 879,000 TEU handled at Vladivostok; launched the FESCO Intra Asia Service linking Vietnam and Malaysia without Russian calls; initiated container services from Novorossiysk to Jebel Ali (UAE) and Mombasa (Kenya); added feeder ports including Chattogram (Bangladesh), Karachi (Pakistan), and Colombo (Sri Lanka) to the FESCO Indian Line West; grew intermodal volumes from China by 50%; and enhanced rail services like Chongqing-Kolyadichi and Xi’an-Novocheboksarsk dedicated trains.