FESCO Transportation Group (“FESCO”, the “Group”) and Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE) have agreed to cooperate in the field of education to train modern personnel in the field of logistics and supply chain management.
The corresponding cooperation agreement was signed by Andrey Severilov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of FESCO and Nikita Anisimov, Rector of Higher School of Economics.
The parties also agreed to develop joint research and innovation projects in the field of logistics, to hold internships for students in companies of the Group and to conduct professional development and retraining of FESCO employees.
In addition, Andrey Severilov and Nikita Anisimov discussed the possibilities of creating educational programs for top and middle management of FESCO.
“FESCO is one of the key players in the market of container transportations via the Russian Far East. Growing demand for this direction obliges us to continuously develop and to constantly offer our customers the most modern logistics solutions. Highly qualified personnel plays a special role in this. Therefore, our cooperation with HSE will allow us to attract new promising specialists to the FESCO team and to expand core competencies of employees of our Company. At the same time, we are ready to give students an opportunity to complete their internships in companies of our Group with subsequent employment of the best students,” said Andrey Severilov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of FESCO.