Direct Shipping Introduced Between Vladivostok, Malaysia and Vietnam

Russia’s FESCO Transportation Group is launching the FESCO Intra Asia Service (FIAS) regular line between Vietnam and Malaysia, the company has stated. A 400TEU container ship from the FESCO fleet will operate the line between the Vietnamese port of Ho Chi Minh City and Malaysia’s Port Klang. The ship will depart once a week and the inter-port transit will take three days, the company said.

Departing from Vladivostok, the ship will make its first call at Malaysia’s Port Klang as part of the FESCO Intra Asia Service on Saturday (August 17), while the estimated date of arrival in Ho Chi Minh City is August 22. The bulk of the FIAS cargo will be chemical products, agricultural goods, food products, textiles and clothing. This is the first sea line to open in almost twenty years without ship calls at Russian ports, FESCO said, with the vessel then returning to Vladivostok with Asian goods for the Russian markets.

German Maslov, FESCO Vice-President for Liner and Logistics Division said that “Thanks to the FIAS service, we are entering a fundamentally new market for FESCO and will be able not only to strengthen our presence in Southeast Asia, but also to give an additional impetus to the development of the group’s existent line between Vietnam and Vladivostok. FESCO Intra Asia Service is operated by a vessel from our fleet, which allows the group to provide customers with guaranteed capacity and a regular schedule. In addition, we plan to use Port Klang as an additional hub for sending transit cargo from India, Singapore, Bangladesh and other countries in the region both to Vietnam and farther to Russia.”