| Volga Shipping | |
| Type: | Open Joint Stock Company |
| Location City: | Nizhniy Novgorod |
| Location Country: | Russia |
| Industry: | Transportation |
| Revenue: | US$ 165.8 mln (2011) |
| Operating Income: | US$ 19 mln (2011) |
| Num Employees: | 3,300 (2011) |
| Homepage: | Volga Shipping Company |
The Volga Shipping Company (Russian: Волжское пароходство|r=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 now owns a fleet of 300 vessels, which carried 6.7 million tonnes of freight and 368,000 passengers in 2011. [1] The company operates over 236 cargo ships and tankers.[2]
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.