Volga Shipping Company

Volga Shipping
Open Joint Stock Company
Industry Transportation
Founded 1843 (1843)
Headquarters Nizhniy Novgorod Russia, Russia
Revenue Increase US$ 165.8 mln (2011)
Decrease US$ 19 mln (2011)
Number of employees
 3,300 (2011)
Website Volga Shipping Company

The Volga Shipping Company (Russian: Волжское пароходство, tr. Volzhskoye parokhodstvo) is a Russian ship-owning company within UCL Holding and is ultimately controlled by Vladimir Lisin's Fletcher Group Holdings Ltd. 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. The company now owns a fleet of 300 vessels, which carried 6.7 million tonnes of freight and 368,000 passengers in 2011. [1]

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  1. ↑ "Volga Shipping Company". Volga Shipping Company. Archived from the original on 2012-02-25. Retrieved 2012-07-30.
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