«Амурское пароходство» - одно из старейших промышленных предприятий Дальнего Востока России. Его история тесно связана с возникновением и развитием судоходства по Амуру.
Legendary enterprise with a century-long history
One of the oldest industrial enterprises in the Russian Far East. Our history is inextricably linked with the development of navigation on the Amur.
"Amur Shipping Company" is one of the oldest industrial enterprises in the Russian Far East. Its history is inextricably linked with the development of navigation on the Amur.
The official date of the opening of navigation is considered May 14 (27), 1854, when, by order of the Governor-General of Eastern Siberia N.N. Muravyov, the first steamship "Argun" (Captain A.S. Sgibnev) set out from the Shilka Factory with a military rafting. This event marked the beginning of regular traffic along the river, which, in the words of G.I. Nevelskoy, had been long awaited by all of Siberia.
The first steamships were state-owned, low-powered, and slow, but unlike the western basins, where navigation began with a wooden fleet, on the Amur metal vessels were built right away. Hulls were sometimes made of wood at shipyards in Blagoveshchensk, while engines and boilers were ordered from abroad.
The official date of the opening of navigation is considered May 14 (27), 1854, when, by order of the Governor-General of Eastern Siberia N.N. Muravyov, the first steamship "Argun" (Captain A.S. Sgibnev) set out from the Shilka Factory with a military rafting. This event marked the beginning of regular traffic along the river, which, in the words of G.I. Nevelskoy, had been long awaited by all of Siberia.
The first steamships were state-owned, low-powered, and slow, but unlike the western basins, where navigation began with a wooden fleet, on the Amur metal vessels were built right away. Hulls were sometimes made of wood at shipyards in Blagoveshchensk, while engines and boilers were ordered from abroad.
During the years of settlement of the Amur region, transportation was carried out by vessels of the Siberian Military Flotilla, but already in 1858 the "Amur Company" was created — the predecessor of a permanent river enterprise. In 1871, the charter of the "Amur Shipping Partnership" (TAP) was approved by the highest authority to organize scheduled service in the basin. The government transferred 10 state-owned steamships with barges to the partnership and assigned an annual subsidy of more than 300 thousand rubles; in return, the partnership carried mail and officials free of charge.
The length of the waterways was about 800 versts (from Khabarovka to Kamen-Rybolov), and towing lines additionally operated on the Amur, Ussuri, and Zeya rivers for timber rafting. By the 1872 navigation season, the TAP already numbered 13 steamships. In 1876–1885, the chairman of the board was Privy Councillor Neronov, who did much for the development of steamship navigation; a powerful tugboat was later named after him.
The length of the waterways was about 800 versts (from Khabarovka to Kamen-Rybolov), and towing lines additionally operated on the Amur, Ussuri, and Zeya rivers for timber rafting. By the 1872 navigation season, the TAP already numbered 13 steamships. In 1876–1885, the chairman of the board was Privy Councillor Neronov, who did much for the development of steamship navigation; a powerful tugboat was later named after him.
The second stage is linked to the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway, which required enormous volumes of cargo transportation. In 1892, the TAP was reorganized into the "Amur Society of Shipping and Trade" (AOPSiT). By 1907, there were 87 shipowners; the largest were AOPSiT (19 self-propelled vessels) and the Chinese Eastern Railway Society (20 vessels). Among the most powerful vessels of that period were the tug-passenger steamships "John Cockerill," "Tsesarevich," "Sergei Dukhovskoy," as well as the tugs "Admiral Nevelskoy" (880 hp) and others.
By 1917, 86 steamships and 40 motor ships had been built at domestic and foreign shipyards. The total number of self-propelled and non-self-propelled fleet exceeded 500 units, of which more than 350 were based in Blagoveshchensk, Khabarovsk, and other ports, and about one hundred in Nikolayevsk-on-Amur. The fleet belonged to 159 owners, predominantly private. The largest private shipowner was the trading house of Alekseev and Sons (tugs with capacity up to 600 hp, passenger vessels with 672 seats). The second largest was I.A. Oparin (seven tug-passenger vessels, including the "Ivan Oparin" at 650 hp, later renamed "Karl Marx" and operated until the 1950s).
In 1954, to mark the 100th anniversary of steamship navigation on the Amur, the staff was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.
In 1993, the enterprise was transformed into an open-type joint-stock company "Amur River Shipping Company," and in 1996 it was renamed OAO "Amur Shipping Company." From 2007 it was part of the RFP Group holding. In subsequent years, the company acquired a universal transshipment complex in Okhotsk Bay (Sovetskaya Gavan) with a planned transshipment volume of up to 800 thousand tons per year, and also participated in the creation of the first Far Eastern customs and logistics terminal in Blagoveshchensk (jointly with ZAO "Trade Port Blagoveshchensk").
In 2017, OAO was reorganized into AO "Amur Shipping Company" (abbreviated AO "AP"). In 2022, the enterprise left the RFP Group. In September 2024, the sale of a controlling stake to new owners was completed. In July 2025, the company moved to a new actual address.
In 1993, the enterprise was transformed into an open-type joint-stock company "Amur River Shipping Company," and in 1996 it was renamed OAO "Amur Shipping Company." From 2007 it was part of the RFP Group holding. In subsequent years, the company acquired a universal transshipment complex in Okhotsk Bay (Sovetskaya Gavan) with a planned transshipment volume of up to 800 thousand tons per year, and also participated in the creation of the first Far Eastern customs and logistics terminal in Blagoveshchensk (jointly with ZAO "Trade Port Blagoveshchensk").
In 2017, OAO was reorganized into AO "Amur Shipping Company" (abbreviated AO "AP"). In 2022, the enterprise left the RFP Group. In September 2024, the sale of a controlling stake to new owners was completed. In July 2025, the company moved to a new actual address.
In 1918, the merchant fleet was nationalized, and A.N. Karpenko was elected the first commissar of water transport. In the same year, the Union of Amur Shippers was created, and the enterprise received the name "Amur National Fleet." In 1922, the government of the Far Eastern Republic approved the "Regulation on Amur State Water Transport," and on December 5, 1922, the enterprise was renamed "Amur State Shipping Company" (AGP). The January 1923 congress of water transport workers in Blagoveshchensk set tasks for restoring the fleet and improving working conditions.
In 1928, the administration was relocated to Khabarovsk. In 1936, the AGP was divided into two independent administrations — the Upper Amur (VAURP, Blagoveshchensk) and the Lower Amur (NAURP, Khabarovsk) — but in 1948 they were merged again into a single "Amur River Shipping Company" with its center in Khabarovsk.
Intensive navigation revived the region's economy: settlement by migrants accelerated, trade, gold mining, and the timber industry developed, and duty-free transport of goods stimulated shipping.
Amur Shipping Company
Nikolai Nikolayevich Muravyov-Amursky
The steamship "Argun" is a historic vessel that entered the chronicles as the first steam-powered ship on the Amur River and became the starting point for the development of regular steamship navigation in this region.
Count Nikolai Nikolayevich Muravyov-Amursky (12 [24] August 1809, St. Petersburg — 18 [30] November 1881, Paris) was a Russian statesman, Governor-General of Eastern Siberia from 1847 to 1861. General of the Infantry, Adjutant General. He played a prominent role in the history of the expansion of Russian possessions in the Far East: he initiated the return of the Amur, which had been ceded to China under the Treaty of Nerchinsk of 1689. He was the founder of Blagoveshchensk, Khabarovsk, and Vladivostok.
Joint-Stock Company "Amur Shipping Company" is the leader in terms of cargo volume on the navigable rivers of the Amur River basin and one of the largest maritime carriers in the Far Eastern region.
"Amur Shipping Company" owns sea and river vessels, including "river-sea" vessels, multipurpose sea vessels, and barge-tug combinations.
Maintenance and repair of the fleet are carried out by its own repair and operational base in Khabarovsk and Malyshevo.
"Amur Shipping Company" delivers socially significant cargo to hard-to-reach areas of the Northern territories.
The "Amur Shipping Company" group of companies carries out intermodal and multimodal cargo transportation, and also provides services for comprehensive fleet servicing and ship agency services.
Here you can familiarize yourself with the full list of services provided by the "Amur Shipping Company" group of companies and submit an online request for the service that interests you. We guarantee you quality based on the experience of a 150-year history of navigation in the Amur River basin and maritime destinations to the countries of the Asia-Pacific region.
"Amur Shipping Company" unites a number of leading transport enterprises of the Russian Far East and repair and operational bases located in Khabarovsk and Malyshevo.
"Amur Shipping Company" has capacities that allow it to transport up to 1 million tons of cargo per year!
"Amur Shipping Company" owns sea and river vessels, including "river-sea" vessels, multipurpose sea vessels, and barge-tug combinations.
Maintenance and repair of the fleet are carried out by its own repair and operational base in Khabarovsk and Malyshevo.
"Amur Shipping Company" delivers socially significant cargo to hard-to-reach areas of the Northern territories.
The "Amur Shipping Company" group of companies carries out intermodal and multimodal cargo transportation, and also provides services for comprehensive fleet servicing and ship agency services.
Here you can familiarize yourself with the full list of services provided by the "Amur Shipping Company" group of companies and submit an online request for the service that interests you. We guarantee you quality based on the experience of a 150-year history of navigation in the Amur River basin and maritime destinations to the countries of the Asia-Pacific region.
"Amur Shipping Company" unites a number of leading transport enterprises of the Russian Far East and repair and operational bases located in Khabarovsk and Malyshevo.
"Amur Shipping Company" has capacities that allow it to transport up to 1 million tons of cargo per year!
Joint-Stock Company "Khabarovsk Repair and Operational Base of the Fleet" is the largest industrial enterprise among the repair bases of the "Amur Shipping Company" joint-stock company, founded in 1895, located on the bank of the Amur River, near the center of Khabarovsk.
"Khabarovsk Repair and Operational Base of the Fleet" has its own berthing facility, a cargo transshipment area, and places for storing and laying up vessels. The company's fleet is serviced and repaired at the base of AO "KhREB Flota."
Currently, the enterprise repairs the fleet, equipment, propulsors, etc. AO "KhREB Flota" has all the necessary equipment for servicing and repairing the fleet:
a berthing facility
a cargo transshipment area
places for storing and laying up vessels
machine tools
fixtures
a slipway
tooling for the construction, repair, and modernization of vessels, floating craft with a lifting capacity of up to 2.5 thousand tons, and marine internal combustion engines.
Khabarovsk REB Flota provides a place for winter lay-up of vessels and lifts vessels onto the slipway with the full range of slipway operations.
Contacts:
680007, Khabarovsk, Oboronnaya St., 1
Phone: (4212) 583-703
Website: hreb.amurship.ru
E-mail: hreb@amurship.ru
"Khabarovsk Repair and Operational Base of the Fleet" has its own berthing facility, a cargo transshipment area, and places for storing and laying up vessels. The company's fleet is serviced and repaired at the base of AO "KhREB Flota."
Currently, the enterprise repairs the fleet, equipment, propulsors, etc. AO "KhREB Flota" has all the necessary equipment for servicing and repairing the fleet:
a berthing facility
a cargo transshipment area
places for storing and laying up vessels
machine tools
fixtures
a slipway
tooling for the construction, repair, and modernization of vessels, floating craft with a lifting capacity of up to 2.5 thousand tons, and marine internal combustion engines.
Khabarovsk REB Flota provides a place for winter lay-up of vessels and lifts vessels onto the slipway with the full range of slipway operations.
Contacts:
680007, Khabarovsk, Oboronnaya St., 1
Phone: (4212) 583-703
Website: hreb.amurship.ru
E-mail: hreb@amurship.ru
Company structure
АО «Амурское пароходство»
АО «ХРЭБ Флота»
Joint-Stock Company "Amur Shipping Company" strives to create conditions for the professional and personal growth of employees and a favorable atmosphere for self-realization. Our employees take pride in working for the holding and make every effort for its development, and we are proud to have assembled and to continue expanding one of the most highly professional teams in Russia.
We highly value the initiative of our employees, are open to the boldest ideas, and are always ready to help bring them to life.
Social guarantees
In its social policy, our company adheres to all the requirements of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation, as well as industry agreements and regulations.
Career growth opportunities
We strive to create and constantly maintain equal conditions for all employees. We form and constantly update a personnel reserve. Employees enrolled in the personnel reserve are priority candidates in the event of vacancies for middle and senior management positions.
We highly value the initiative of our employees, are open to the boldest ideas, and are always ready to help bring them to life.
Social guarantees
In its social policy, our company adheres to all the requirements of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation, as well as industry agreements and regulations.
Career growth opportunities
We strive to create and constantly maintain equal conditions for all employees. We form and constantly update a personnel reserve. Employees enrolled in the personnel reserve are priority candidates in the event of vacancies for middle and senior management positions.
The opportunity to significantly improve professional skills
Professional development of employees is one of the key elements of the company's HR strategy. We encourage the desire for new knowledge and make every effort to help our employees grow and master new professional horizons. Employees have the opportunity to receive additional education at the best Russian universities, undergo specialized training and seminars, and participate in internship programs.
Stable wages and motivation
The wages of our employees directly depend on the results of their work. All enterprises of the holding have employee bonus programs based on performance. Effective and productive work is always duly rewarded.
All innovative and rationalization proposals for improving business processes and modernizing production are always reviewed by the project office and the commission for rewards and incentives. By constantly developing our corporate culture, we form a community of like-minded people who share the goals and values of our holding.
Professional development of employees is one of the key elements of the company's HR strategy. We encourage the desire for new knowledge and make every effort to help our employees grow and master new professional horizons. Employees have the opportunity to receive additional education at the best Russian universities, undergo specialized training and seminars, and participate in internship programs.
Stable wages and motivation
The wages of our employees directly depend on the results of their work. All enterprises of the holding have employee bonus programs based on performance. Effective and productive work is always duly rewarded.
All innovative and rationalization proposals for improving business processes and modernizing production are always reviewed by the project office and the commission for rewards and incentives. By constantly developing our corporate culture, we form a community of like-minded people who share the goals and values of our holding.
Employment
VACANCIES AT THE COMPANY
55 VACANCIES
Official employment in accordance with the Labor Code of the Russian Federation and the collective agreement with a full social package
