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RUSCON expands own maritime multimodal service in North Africa and Middle East
development 22 September 2022Since September 25, 2022, multimodal operator RUSCON (part of the Delo Group), is expanding the maritime part of the route as part of its own multimodal service development for containerized cargo delivery from/to Israel. The service will be operated by a vessel with a capacity of 630 TEU instead of 466 TEU before.
The service schedule will include regular calls to Egyptian port of Alexandria. Thus, the higher-capacity vessel will cover the new Novorossiysk - Alexandria - Ashdod – Novorossiysk route with twice-a-week frequency of shipments.
Sergey Berezkin, the President of RUSCON, noted that the decision to increase the service scope was made after 2-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 specialized 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”.
Back to news list The service schedule will include regular calls to Egyptian port of Alexandria. Thus, the higher-capacity vessel will cover the new Novorossiysk - Alexandria - Ashdod – Novorossiysk route with twice-a-week frequency of shipments.
Sergey Berezkin, the President of RUSCON, noted that the decision to increase the service scope was made after 2-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 specialized 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”.
