Volga Shipping Company

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Volga Shipping

Type	Open Joint Stock Company
Industry	Transportation
Founded	1843 (1843)
Headquarters	Nizhniy Novgorod Russia , Russia
Revenue	US$ 165.8 mln (2011)
Operating income	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]

See also[]

• Vodohod

References[]

External links[]

• Official website of the Volga Shipping Company