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CHINESE FREIGHTER DELIVERS EQUIPMENT TO PORT ODESA FOR ROAD CONSTRUCTION

28 March , 2018  

Chinese freighter FU Rong Song, owned by the well-known maritime carrier Cosco Shipping, has delivered a significant amount of road construction equipment to Odesa. A 180-meter vessel moored to berth No. 1 of the Quarantine Harbor last week, the local portal Dumska reported with reference to sources in the port. Over two days, more than 400 units of equipment with a total weight of 2,500 tonnes were unloaded. The part of the delivered equipment is a mini-plant for the production of asphalt concrete, the rest – dump trucks, graders, asphalt pavers, rollers, truck cranes, etc.
The portal suggests that the arrived equipment is by the Chinese company Xinjiang Communications Construction Group Co., LTD, with which Ukravtodor signed contracts for the repair of sections of the highway Kyiv-Kharkiv-Dovzhanske and Stryi – Ternopil – Kropivnytsky – Znamianka.