Volga Shipping Company
| Open Joint Stock Company | |
| Industry | Transportation |
| Founded | 1843 |
| Headquarters | Nizhniy Novgorod Russia, Russia |
| Revenue |
 US$ 165.8 mln (2011) |
 US$ 19 mln (2011) | |
Number of employees | 3,300 (2011) |
| Website | www.volgashipping.ru |
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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References
- ↑ "Volga Shipping Company". Volga Shipping Company. Retrieved 2012-07-30.
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