Russian intermodal transport operator Ruscon has started a scheduled flexitank container service to Kazakhstan.
In the first quarter of 2014, about 40 containers arrived from Italy at the port of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea, the company said. This number is expected to increase over the next few years.
From Novorossiysk, the containers are carried on Ruscon railcars to a bonded warehouse run by Kedentransservice in Mangyshlak, Kazakhstan. There, the goods are customs-cleared and transported by road more than 360 kilometers to Bautino, a supply and logistics base for the off-shore oil industry in Kazakhstan’s sector of the North Caspian Sea.
The plastic flexitanks are stowed in standard 20-foot containers and hold drilling oil. After the flexitanks are emptied, Ruscon takes them to a waste processing plant for disposal.
Ruscon starts flexitank service to Kazakhstan
