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Volga Shipping Company

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Volga Shipping
Company typeOpen Joint Stock Company
IndustryTransportation
Founded1843 (1843)
Headquarters,
RevenueIncrease US$ 165.8 mln (2011)
Decrease US$ 19 mln (2011)
Number of employees
3,300 (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

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The company now owns a fleet of 300 vessels, which carried 6.7 million tonnes of freight and 368,000 passengers in 2011. [1] The company operates over 236 cargo ships and tankers.[2]

History

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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

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References

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  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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