Volga Shipping Company


The Volga Shipping Company is a Russian ship-owning company within UCL Holding and is ultimately controlled by Vladimir Lisin's Fletcher Group Holdings Ltd.
WWW volgaflot.com/en

Operations

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

History

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.