Sakhalin shipping company buys 4.805 thou tons dwt. container-carrier

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30 Nov 2009

Sakhalin Shipping Company OJSC (SASCO) bought a 1995 container-carrier of 4.805 thou tons dwt for regular container lines operation of the shipping company, stated Egor Vagin, Deputy CEO of the company. ‘The container-carrier built in 1995 named Zeya will be the newest in the company’s fleet’, RIA Novosti sited Vagin. ‘It is the third vessel bought by the shipping company this year. The first one was procured in March, second – in June, and a day before the company-shipowner took delivery of a container-carrier of 4.805 thou tons dwt in the German port Flensburg. It is planned to be used for operation in regular container lines linking ports of Vanino and Vladivostok to Sakhalin, Kamchatka and Magadan,’ Vagin stated.
It is necessary to remind that in 2008 Sakhalin Shipping Company OJSC announced its plans of fleet renewal. As per Alexandr Matsuk, CEO of the company, the shipping company has elaborated a three-year program of fleet renewal under which it is planned to invest company’s funds and attract credit resources of Sberbank.

Source: PortNews