OREANDA-NEWS. April 01, 2011. Four motor vessels owned by Volga Shipping Company docked today at the port of Buzan (Astrakhan region) to take onboard the sulfur cargo, the company’s press service reports. The Volga-Don class vessels will transport the cargo to the port of Kavkaz (Krasnodar Territory).

Volga Shipping plans to carry in April nearly 160,000 tons of export sulfur. The operator will engage its own 27 MVs for transportation of sulfur on the lane the Port Buzan - Port Kavkaz.

JSC Volga Shipping Company, founded in 1843, is one of the oldest and largest shipping companies in Russia. VSC specializes in transportation of cargo and passengers on inland waterways of the country. In the period from April 1 through December 1, 2010, the shipping company’s 188 cargo ships carried 5.5 million tons of cargo, a 21-percent increase year-over-year. The company owns and operates the fleet of 250 cargo and passenger vessels. Volga Shipping Company is part of the Universal Cargo Logistics Holding that consolidates a number of Russian stevedoring, shipping and shipbuilding assets.