Ferry service between Sokcho - Zarubino - Hunchun started operations

Passenger ferry class Ro-Ro "New Blue Ocean" IMO: 8800755 flag Panama was built in 1989. Shipbuilder: Onomichi Dockyard, Onomichi, Japan. Key Features ferry: draft of 6 meters. The maximum speed of 14.1 knot, the average of 11 knots.
Capacity ferry about 750 people.
Prior to January 11992 there were a ship under the name NEW ORIO
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, Up to October 12002 under the name FERRY FUKUOKA; until May 12007 under the name SUPERFERRY 16 up to 01 June 2007 under the name of NEW QINGDAO.

Ferry service between the South Korean port of Sokcho and seaside Zarubino was discovered in 2000 and several years later became a ferry to go to Vladivostok. In late 2010 he worked on the line vessel "Dong Chun Ferry" ran aground and damaged screws. Since then, the journey is not implemented.

In the first stage of the delivery of goods in Hunchun Zarubino can be done by car through the checkpoint Kraskino. Today, there is a reconstruction. At the same time addressed the issue of restoration of the railway border crossing Makhalina-Hunchun, which may attract transit cargoes. He quit his job in 2004.

We recall that the theme restore ferry service between Vladivostok, Zarubino and Sokcho representatives voiced notes in October last year during the presentation of meetings with representatives of the seaside tourist industry

Thread the reopening of the transit line Sokcho (ROK) - Zarubino (RF) - Hunchun (China) discussed at the beginning of 2012. during the tripartite meeting of representatives of the Republic of Korea, China and Russia, which took place in the South Korean city of Sokcho.