Volga Shipping Company
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| Company type | Open Joint Stock Company |
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| Industry | Transportation |
| Founded | 1843 |
| Headquarters | , |
| Revenue |  US$ 165.8 mln (2011) |
 US$ 19 mln (2011) | |
Number of employees | 3,300 (2011) |
| Website | Volga Shipping Company |
The Volga Shipping Company (Russian: Волжское пароходство, romanized: Volzhskoye parokhodstvo) is a Russian ship-owning company within UCL Holding and is ultimately controlled by Vladimir Lisin's Fletcher Group Holdings Ltd.
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.
