business network member home Products and service Contacts ABOUT COMPANY Closed Joint Stock Company Westrybflot is one of the largest fishing companies in Kaliningrad. The main areas of activity are fishing and processing of fish, production and sale of frozen fish products. The company was founded in 1992. The team consists of about 400 seafarers and the management - 24 people, including technical personnel. General Director of the company - Gorbachev Vladimir Nikolaevich - Honored Worker of the Fish Industry of the Russian Federation. Born on December 15, 1939 in Guryev, Kazakh SSR. He graduated from a fishing technical school with a degree in industrial fishing, worked as a sailor on ships of the fishing fleet of the Zaprybholodflot enterprise in Kaliningrad. In 1968 he graduated from the Kaliningrad Technical Institute of the Fishing Industry and Economy with a degree in industrial fishing. He worked as a senior mining foreman, flagship specialist on the vessels of the Kaliningrad trawl fleet base, as an engineer in the mining department. Since 1972 Gorbachev V.N. worked in the Mortransflot Department in executive positions. In 1992, V.N. Gorbachev created an independent organization - ZAO Westrybflot and has been successfully managing it all these years. The company, which started its work with one vessel, now carries out the extraction and processing of seafood with four of its own vessels. These are large freezer trawlers (BATM) of the Pulkovsky Meridian type, built at the Black Sea shipyard in the city of Nikolaev. Possessing a solid capacity and carrying capacity (up to 1,300 tons), speeds up to 14.3 knots, they provide an unlimited navigation area, allowing them to be in autonomous navigation for up to 70 days. Fishing (main species - herring, mackerel, blue whiting) is conducted in the North-East Atlantic all year round. “Armenak Babaev”, “Stary Arbat”, “Lazurny”, “Zamoskvorechye” - these are the names of the ships of the enterprise - they are equipped with the most modern equipment for searching and catching fish, modernized lines for cutting raw materials and freezing products, the latest navigation technology. Due to the fact that the fishing and processing equipment is maintained in good technical condition, during the production of fish products, it is possible to maintain the temperature regime at all stages of the technological process, from storage of the catch to its processing, including storage of finished products in holds. All ships of the enterprise operate according to the HACCP quality system, which ensures constant control over the sanitary and hygienic state of production and the quality of fish and seafood products. The vessels are registered and have a sanitary certificate for the manufacture of products for export to the countries of the European Union. The enterprise annually produces over 50 thousand tons of frozen fish products. These are uncut herring, uncut and decapitated mackerel, uncut blue whiting, as well as feed meal, non-thiaminase fish for feed for fur-bearing animals, and technical fish oil. ZAO Westrybflot supplies its products to many enterprises and entrepreneurs in Russia (this is 95% of the total production volume), as well as to the CIS countries, the Far Abroad - to Iceland, Canada, and the Republic of South Africa. The high quality of fish feed from Westrybflot is appreciated at its true worth in numerous fur farms in the Russian Federation and Belarus. Thanks to its merits in the fur industry of Russia, ZAO Westrybflot was admitted to the Russian Fur Union. CJSC "Westrybflot" fulfills its obligations to its clients clearly, which has earned it a reputation as a reliable partner in the business community. ZAO Westrybflot was born in difficult times for the Russian economy, and today the enterprise, which already has a 13-year history, is a model for many, clearly demonstrating the possibility of effective and successful work regardless of the general economic climate. In 1998, ZAO Westrybflot overcame the default without great economic stresses for the enterprise, as a result of which many fishing enterprises were "aground". The main factors of the stable work of the company were the business and organizational qualities of the general director of ZAO Westrybflot Vladimir Nikolaevich Gorbachev and the professionalism of the employees. Work at all stages of the company's activity is clearly debugged, A stable financial position, participation in many investment projects allows the company to regularly update technical equipment and modernize production, which in turn contributes to an increase in the output of fish products, expanding its range. Thus, together with the German companies Rosoma GmbH and Grasso International GmbH on The vessels of CJSC "Westrybflot" carried out a project to re-equip fish processing and freezing lines. Trawl doors PH8-10 of the Icelandic firm "Hampidyan" are successfully operated on all vessels in the fishery. The P-COT system of the French company “S.E.M.T. Pilstick "designed to protect the crankshafts of the main engines of ships. New programs are being developed to improve the efficiency of fishing and fish processing. The management of the enterprise also helps the development of science: together with a group of specialists from AtlantNIRO, advanced technologies in the production of fish products are being developed. ZAO Westrybflot cooperates with the Polar Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (PINRO) and NTF "Complex Systems" (Murmansk) on the implementation of a project for the organization of aircraft search and information services for the fishery in the Norwegian Sea. The company pays a lot of attention to social issues. Wages are paid on time, all deductions required by law are made. The labor protection service works. ZAO Westrybflot provide charitable and sponsor assistance to hospitals, boarding schools, creative and sports teams, associations of veterans and disabled people. The activities of Westrybflot CJSC can serve as a clear example of how an enterprise can work effectively, develop, make a profit and at the same time bring real benefits to the Fatherland, providing the population with fish products and providing hundreds of jobs. COMPANY'S NEWS No news. WESTRYBFLOT CJSC Legal Address : Russia , 236000 , Kaliningrad , Kaliningrad region , Komsomolskaya st., 27a Postal Address : Russia , 236000 , Kaliningrad , Kaliningrad region , Komsomolskaya st., 27a Phone: +7 (401) 295-5601 ; Fax : +7 (401) 295-5165 E-mail address:wflot@baltnet.ru Version for the visually impaired Complain about content