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The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan (MLIT), JSC Russian Railways, and FESCO Transportation Group have sent the first refrigerated containers with cargo from Japan to Europe via the Trans-Siberian Railway. The cargo consists of food, beverages and pharmaceutical products that call for special storage and transportation conditions.
Refrigerated containers from Japanese cities Toyama and Kobe were delivered by the FESCO marine service to Commercial Port Vladivostok from where they were dispatched to St. Petersburg as part of the regular FESCO train on February 2, 2022, then the containers will be delivered by sea to Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.
Starting from January 2022 Russian Railways, MLIT, Transport and Tourism of Japan and FESCO are implementing a joint project of test shipments of goods in refrigerated containers from Japan.
