Black Sea Shipping Company (Ukrainian: ЧорноморÑьке морÑьке пароплавÑтво) is a shipping company of Ukraine based in Odessa.
During the Soviet rule, the company held the title of world's largest shipping company for at least several years and was instrumental in important foreign trade and international aid initiatives of the Soviet government.
In February 2009 it was recognized bankrupt by the Higher Commercial Court of Ukraine (previously by the Commercial Court of Odessa Oblast and the Odessa Appellate Commercial Court).
On 11 January 2017, the State Property Fund of Ukraine decided to sell the company at auction.
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History
The company was established on June 13, 1922 as Black Sea - Azov Sea Shipping by the Council of Labour and Defence as part of the People's Commissariat of Communication Routes and administrated by the Central Administration of State Merchant Fleet (Gostorgflot). The company however traces its history to May 16, 1833 when the Black Sea Society of Steamships (ROPiT) was established as means of permanent communications between Odessa and Istanbul, but the company disappeared after the Crimean War of the 1850s. The Black Sea - Azov Sea Shipping company splits into Black Sea Shipping Company, Azov Sea Shipping Company and Georgian Shipping Company after World War II. Another split took place in 1964 when a new company, Novorossiysk Shipping Company, was created from the tanker division of the Black Sea Shipping Company.
Azov Sea region management of Black Sea Shipping Company was created in Zhdanov in 1953. Azov Sea region management was reorganized in Azov Sea Shipping Company in 1967. It is why some ships of Black Sea Shipping Company ships were handed over changed to Azov Sea Shipping Company and home port was changed from Odessa to Zhdanov. So, two sister ships Nezhin and Smela were transferred to Azov Sea Shipping Company in 1969 or in 1967.
In 1990 Black Sea Shipping was the biggest one in Europe among other shipping companies and the second in whole world. With the fall of the Soviet Union, the company was passed from the Ministry of Sea Fleet of the USSR as a state company of Ukraine and later registered with the Fund of State Property of Ukraine.
On August 13, 1993 President Leonid Kravchuk issued the Decree #303, creating the state conglomeration "Blasko" based on "Black Sea Shipping Company". The Decree was canceled in January 1995.
Speaking in 2013, Leonid Kravchuk accepted his blame for decisions leading to ruining of the "Black Sea Shipping Company".
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Leaders of the Black Sea Shipping Company
- 1928 â€" 1931 â€" F. I. Matveyev
- 1931â€"1934 â€" Boris Matveyevich Zanko
- 1934â€"1935 â€" P. P. Koval
- 1935â€"1937 â€" Genrikh Yakovlevich Magon
- 1937 â€" Andrey Sergeyevich Polkovskiy
- 25.11.1938-15.05.1939 â€" Semyon Ivanovich Tyomkin
- 1939â€"1941 â€" Georgiy Afanasiyevich Mezentsev
- 1942 â€" Ivan Georgiyevich Syryh (could be leader of Black Sea Shipping department "Sovtanker")
- 1941â€"1944 â€" Pahom Mihailovich Makarenko
- 1956â€"1972 â€" Aleksey Yevgeniyevich Danchenko â€" The favorite leader of the Black Sea Shipping Company sailors.
- 1972â€"1975 â€" A. V. Goldobenko
- 1975 â€" 1978 â€" Oleg Konstantinovich Tomas
- 1978â€"1986 â€" Stanislav Aleksandrovich Lukiyanchenko
- 1986â€"1992 â€" Viktor Vasiliyevich Pilipyenko
- 1992â€"1994 â€" Pavlo Kudyukin
- 1994 â€" 1995 â€" Oleksiy Koval
- 1995â€"1997 â€" Oleksandr Stohniyenko
- 1997â€"1998 â€" Oleksandr Diordiyev
- 1998â€"2000 â€" Serhiy Melashchenko
- 2000â€"2002 â€" Borys Shcherbak
- 2002 â€" 2004 â€" Mykhailo Mazovskyi
- 2004â€"2009 â€" Yevhen Kozhevin
Vessels fleet
Black Sea Shipping company was the biggest company in the world in 1980-es years as per quantity of sea-going vessels. The company had more than 250 sea-going ship during the best times.
Ports and harbours of operation
During the Soviet Union period and after the creation of the Novorossiysk Sea Shipping Company all of the large ports on the present Ukrainian territory except Sevastopol, Asov Sea ports, Kerch port and Danube river ports were owned and administrated by the Black Sea Shipping Company. After the collapse of the Soviet Union these ports separated from the shipping company.
Ports of Black Sea Shipping Co. during Soviet Union period:
- Constellation of the Black Sea basin (by analogy with the word Mediterranean):
- Odessa
- Illichivsk
- Yuzhne
- River ports:
- Mykolaiv Sea port
- Kherson Sea port
- Bilhorod-Dnistrovsky
- Crimea ports
- Yalta
- Alushta
- Feodosiya
Before the creation of the Novorossiysk Sea Shipping Company the Black Sea Shipping Company also included all ports of Novorossiysk Sea Shipping Company on the east coast of the Black Sea:
- Novorossiysk
- Tuapse
The main port was Odessa during all times. And most of tonnage of cargо passed via Constellation of the Black Sea basin - Odessa, Illichivsk, Yuzhne ports.
Sevastopol - was not Black Sea Shipping Co. port. It was naval port of Soviet Union in Black Sea.
See also
- Russian Steam Navigation and Trading Company, company-predecessor in 1856-1918
- SS Admiral Nakhimov
- MV Admiral Ushakov
- The following West class cargo steamers or Balarissia class cargo steamers were transferred from Far East Shipping Company to the Black Sea Shipping Company:
- Ð'елоруÑÑиÑ, Ð'оÑток, Лермонтов, Плеханов, Ð¢Ð°Ñ€Ð°Ñ Ð¨ÐµÐ²Ñ‡ÐµÐ½ÐºÐ¾ from 1947 to 1949.
- Ð'Ñ‚Ð¾Ñ€Ð°Ñ ÐŸÑтилетка, Karaganda, ИркутÑк, Кавказ, Капитан Ð'иÑлобоков were transferred in 1950. The ship Karaganda was used on the line between Black Sea Soviet ports and India ports.
- Ðргунь (ex. West Modus from 1919 to 1942) was transferred in 1951.
- Kolomna class cargo ships
- Nezhin
- Smela
- Divnogorsk class ships
- SS Divnogorsk (1961)
- SS Mednogorsk (1961)
- Leninsky Komsomol class cargo ships, - total 25 ships
- SS Leninsky Komsomol (1959)
- SS Metallurg Baykov (1960)
- SS Fizik Kurchatov
- SS Metallurg Anosov
- SS Bratstvo (1963)
- and others
- In addition to 40 "Liberty" ships received by the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease during World War II 10 vessels of this type were purchased for the Black Sea Sate Shipping Company in Europe (mainly in Italy) in 1963 - Ðлатау, Ðвача (to see photo here http://radikal.ru/fp/80b312257569401e9b87bc6a2c206b8d), Ð'ештау, Ð"арьÑл, Карпаты, Хибины, Машук, СаÑны, СихотÑ-Ðлинь, Малахов Курган.
- Kommunist class of cargo ships
- Fridrikh Engels
- Toyvo Antikaynen
- Slavyansk class cargo ships
- Sarny
- FC Chornomorets Odesa
Video "Passenger ships of Black Sea Shipping Company": http://ok.ru/video/62247638002607-0
References
External links
- Ships of Ukraine website
- Lartsev, V. ChMP - Part 3. Requiem for the Black Sea squadron. (ЧМП - чаÑтина третÑ. РеквіÑ"м за ЧорноморÑькою еÑкадрою). Ukrayinska Pravda. 2013-01-25
- Malko, R. Drowned billios. How was destroyed Black Sea Shipping Company (Потоплені мільÑрди. Як було знищене ЧорноморÑьке морÑьке пароплавÑтво). The Ukrainian Week. 29 October 2016
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