Volgo tanker
Volgotanker ( Russian Волгота́нкер ) was a Russian shipping company based in Samara , which was traveling with oil tankers on the inland and coastal waters of the European part of the Soviet Union and Russia . The company went bankrupt in 2008 .
Surname
The full Russian name was Волжское нефтеналивное пароходство "Волгота́нкер" (Wolschskoje neftenaliwnoje parochodstwo "Wolgotanker", German about Volga oil shipping company "Volgotanker" ). The name Volgotanker was common in international business .
history
Soviet time
The company was established in 1938 when the oil department of the state-owned Volga shipping company became independent, also under state control. Their task was initially to transport oil and oil products from the production sites around Baku to the industrial centers on the Volga and Kama via the port of Astrakhan on the Caspian Sea . This became particularly important during World War II , after the rail links between the Caucasus and central Russia were cut by German troops. During the war, 95 ships in the fleet are said to have been sunk or damaged by air strikes and mines, killing 123 seamen.
After the war, Volgotanker also took over the oil transport from the newly developed oil fields in Bashkortostan and in eastern Tatarstan . Oil refineries were built along the Volga and its tributaries . B. in Ufa , Kstowo and Sysran , whose products the company also transported. Soviet ports on the Baltic Sea , the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea could also be supplied via the Volga-Baltic Sea Canal and the Volga-Don Canal . From 1965 Finland was also called . In 1970 a ship of the fleet reached the port of Kandalaksha on the White Sea for the first time via the White Sea-Baltic Canal . The amount of oil and oil products transported increased from 3 million tons in 1965 to 35 million tons in 1984.
Russian time
In 1992 the company was converted into a private stock corporation. The largest shareholder and client was initially the oil company Yukos , which was later ousted by the oil company Rosneft . Since domestic demand declined due to the economic downturn in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union , the oil was now increasingly brought for export to the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea. In 2003, a floating loading station was built in the White Sea near Onega , where Latvian deep-sea tankers took over oil. Three months after completion, there was an accident, as a result of which around 70 km of coastline were contaminated with oil, which, in addition to the payment of damages, meant that this distribution channel had to be discontinued.
The company's decline began in 2004 with tax evasion proceedings. The loss in the 1st half of 2005 was 866 million rubles on a turnover of 1.3 billion rubles. In 2007 an application for bankruptcy followed as well as another shipwreck in the Strait of Kerch and finally on March 4, 2008 bankruptcy.
fleet
As of January 2006, the ship fleet consisted of 353 ships, of which 204 were oil tankers and tank bulk carriers with a capacity of 300 to 10,000 GRT , 95 barges with a capacity of 1,000 to 9,000 GRT and 54 tugs .
The ships mostly bore the name Волгонефть (German: Wolgoneft, international: Volgoneft) combined with a number.
Footnotes
- ↑ a b declaration of bankruptcy on gazeta.ru (rus.)
- ↑ a b Alexei Bambuljak, Bjørn Franzen. The oil transport from the Russian part of the Barents Sea (Jan. 2005) ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file on www.wwf.ru; 7.4 MB; rus.)
- ↑ Three bodies washed ashore. In: sueddeutsche.de. May 17, 2010, accessed September 27, 2018 .
