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FESCO Transportation Group (FESCO) has organised the delivery of heavy equipment for construction of NPP Akkuyu, in the Republic of Turkey.
 
Cargo vessel, Viking with eight sets of accumulators of the system for passive inundation of the core, which are one of the most important elements of the NPP safety system, weighing 83 tonnes each and an upper unit with a reactor vessel lid weighing 104 tonnes has arrived from the port of Rostov-on-Don to cargo terminal, Vostochny, in Russia, in early January 2022. The total weight of the delivered cargo made up to 948 tonnes.

FESCO - AKKUYU NUCLEAR JSC partnership

ESCO and AKKUYU NUCLEAR JSC signed an agreement for provision of a range of logistics services, at the terminal of Vostochny

FESCO specialists, with the direct participation and control of specialists from the Department of Transport and Warehouse Logistics and Customs Clearance of AKKUYU NUCLEAR JSC, a Rosatom State Corporation company, which is responsible for construction and subsequent operation of NPP Akkuyu, ensured trans-shipment of cargo from the vessel to motor vehicles, with two Liebherr LG-1750 mobile cranes, with a lifting ability of 750 tonnes and with a Liebherr LTM-1120, with a lifting ability of 120 tonnes, as well as transportation and placement of equipment in temporary storage facilities, at storage facilities of the NPP construction site.

In September 2021, within the frames of the Eastern Economic Forum 2021, FESCO and AKKUYU NUCLEAR JSC signed an agreement for provision of a range of logistics services, at the terminal of Vostochny, for handling cargo delivered by sea, as part of the NPP construction project. According to the agreement, FESCO acts as the logistics operator of cargo terminal, Vostochny.

NPP Akkuyu, based on BOO model

NPP Akkuyu is the world’s first project in nuclear industry, implemented by the Rosatom State Corporation, according to the BOO (‘Build-Own-Operate’) model.

The NPP Akkuyu project includes four power units with Russian type VVER generation III+ reactors of increased safety and improved technical and economic characteristics. Capacity of each power unit of the NPP Akkuyu will be 1,200 MW.

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