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RUSCON made first container shipment of grain cargo in liner-bags to China

Two 20-foot containers in a container train were shipped from Ekaterinburg via the port of Vostochny by sea. The shipment was organized and forwarded by the local RUSCON office. The loading of seeds was carried out by an innovative method developed by the company at the elevator in Chelyabinsk. Thus, it took only 30 minutes to fill one container.

The rolling stock was provided by TransContainer (part of Delo Group). The shipment was loaded onto the vessel using services of Vostochnaya Stevedoring Company (part of GlobalPorts stevedoring sub-holding).

Commenting on the test shipment, Alexander Krylov, CEO of RUSCON representative office in Ekaterinburg, said: “Containerized transportation of seeds in container bags, on the one hand, has all the advantages of such delivery - directly from the consignor to the customer without re-stuffing and losses. On the other hand, it protects the cargo from unfavorable external factors, so we will increase the shipment volumes using this loading method, primarily from TransContainer's terminal in Ekaterinburg.

We are also developing container train shipments via the facilities of our new transportation and logistics center “Uralsky” in Ekaterinburg. This point is the first stage of an ongoing global project for the creation of a major logistics hub in the center of our country. This provides us with the highest speed and most convenient cargo handling for our customers”.

About company

Ruscon is a part of Delo Group, 3PL operator for containerized cargo delivery in Russia and the CIS based on Delo Group’s asstes. Ruscon expands its ability to provide end-to-end cargo delivery services by a range of its own transportation assets: marine terminals, fleet of trucks, flatcars, inland terminals, customs and logistics storage facilities as well as developed network of branch offices.

Delo Group is Russian transportation and logistics holding, operating its own fleet and managing 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 parent company of the Group is Delo Management Company.

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.