Russian carrier enlarges Black Sea-Med loop with bigger ship

DEPLOYING a 630-TEU vessel instead of the 466-TEUer on a fortnightly run to and from Novorossiysk, Alexandria, Ashdod and back to Novorossiysk, represents an expansion of service, says Delo Group, the russian forwarding giant, reports St Petersburg PortNews.

Sergey Berezkin, the president of Delo Group unit Ruscon noted that the decision to increase the service scope was made after two-months of service' operations and high demand among the cargo owners in Russia, Israel and Egypt.

'In addition to the increased carrying capacity, the container vessel has more efficient characteristics. It is equipped with specialised reefer outlets for transportation of refrigerated containers from Israel and Egypt. This expands the range of high-quality maritime container logistics services provided by Ruscon to our customers,' said Mr Berezkin.

Delo Group is a Russian transportation and logistics holding, that operates its own fleet, and manages sea container terminals in the Azov-Black Sea, Baltic and Far Eastern basins, a network of railway container terminals, a fleet of containers and fitting platforms.

The group's stevedoring business includes DeloPorts holding and Global Ports, a leading container terminal operator. The transport and logistics business of the group is made up of the multimodal transport operator Ruscon and the intermodal container operator TransContainer.

The shipping business is represented by the Sakhalin Shipping Company (SASCO), is one of the biggest Russian shipping companies.

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