Industry Transportation Operating income Founded 1843 Type of business Open Joint Stock Company | Revenue US$ 165.8 mln (2011) Website Volga Shipping Company Number of employees 3,300 (2011) | |
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Headquarters Nizhniy Novgorod Russia, Russia | ||
The Volga Shipping Company (Russian: Волжское пароходство, 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.
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