ENG About us Fleet Investors Career Press center About us Company Profile History Chronology of major events SCF history in courts Name on board SCF Group Contacts SCF Public Reception Office Letter to the ship homeAbout usHistory Foundation history The decision of the Council of Ministers of the USSR to provide the Minmorflot with the opportunity to charter foreign tonnage on a bareboat charter was the first step towards creating Sovcomflot In 2018, Sovcomflot celebrates its 30th anniversary. Joint-stock commercial enterprise "Soviet Commercial Fleet" (AKP "Sovcomflot") was established in accordance with the Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR No. 474 of April 16, 1988 on the basis of the All-Union self-supporting foreign trade association "Sovcomflot". The corresponding order of the Minister of the USSR Navy No. 81-pr was signed on June 3, 1988. It is this date in the SCF group that is considered to be a historical starting point. The status of a joint stock company was unique for that time. The purpose of transforming the form of enterprise management into a joint-stock company was "the need to further increase foreign exchange earnings, increase the foreign exchange efficiency of transportation in foreign navigation and strengthen the material and technical base of sea transport based on the development and improvement of the commercial activities of the USSR Ministry of the Navy in the field of international shipping." At the time of its formation, the capital of AKP Sovcomflot was 250 million rubles. The founders of the enterprise were the USSR Minmorflot, as well as sea shipping companies: Far East, Black Sea, Novorossiysk, Latvian, Baltic and Soviet Danube. The foundation of Sovcomflot was laid fifteen years earlier: on March 23, 1973, the USSR Council of Ministers decided to indirectly violate the monopoly of foreign trade and provide the USSR Ministry of the Navy with the opportunity to use a commercial scheme for leasing new and used vessels on the basis of long-term leasing (the so-called bareboat - charter) with the transfer of ownership after payment of their value from the earned freight. This innovative approach in the conditions of the planned Soviet economy, the introduction of which was promoted by the Minister of the USSR Navy, Timofey Borisovich Guzhenko, made it possible to significantly update the fleet, introduce into the practice of domestic shipping companies the most modern systems of technical, commercial and financial management at that time. Первыми судами, приобретенными по новой схеме, были два сухогруза дедвейтом около 40 тыс. тонн каждый - «Совфрахт» и «Совинфлот». В течение последующих 15 лет более 100 судов различных типов были приобретены по схеме бербоут-чартера. В 1976 году для этих целей был создан Валютный оборотный фонд коммерческих операций при Министерстве морского флота СССР. Средства, вырученные от эксплуатации бербоутных судов и реализации коммерческих операций, поступали в фонд. As a result, the use of such an economic model made it possible to create a global company with one of the most modern fleets in the world without attracting public funds. Sovcomflot became the first domestic shipping company established in accordance with international standards and world practice. By 1990, the total deadweight of its fleet was 1.8 million tons. In 1995, Sovcomflot was transformed into a joint stock company, 100% of the shares of which are owned by the state. Site development: © PAO Sovcomflot 2018 SCF GroupProcurementSite MapContacts