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Volga Shipping
Company typeOpen Joint Stock Company
IndustryTransportation
Founded1843 (1843)
HeadquartersNizhniy Novgorod, Russia
RevenueIncrease US$ 165.8 mln (2011)
Operating incomeDecrease US$ 19 mln (2011)
Number of employees3,300 (2011)
WebsiteVolga Shipping Company

The Volga Shipping Company (Russian: Волжское пароходство, romanized: Volzhskoye parokhodstvo) is a Russian ship-owning company within UCL Holding and is ultimately controlled by Vladimir Lisin's Fletcher Group Holdings Ltd.

Operations

The company now owns a fleet of 300 vessels, which carried 6.7 million tonnes of freight and 368,000 passengers in 2011. The company operates over 236 cargo ships and tankers.

History

The company was founded in 1843 as On the Volga steamship company, went through a number of structural and ownership changes over the years, emerging under its current name and structure in 1994.

See also

References

  1. "Volga Shipping Company". Volga Shipping Company. Archived from the original on 2012-02-25. Retrieved 2012-07-30.
  2. Bahtić, Fatima (16 July 2021). "Volga Shipping starts its 20-ship renewal program with 4 orders at Okskaya Shipyard". Offshore Energy. Retrieved 1 March 2022.

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