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Murmansk Shipping Company

Headquarters: Murmansk
Founded: 1939
Employees: —

Official website

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

—

No published figure available

Container capacity

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Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

30,635

Summed over 4 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Murmansk Shipping Company is

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Murmansk Shipping Company (Russian: Мурманское морское пароходство), often abbreviated as MSCO, was a Russian shipping company based in Murmansk. It was one of the primary shipping companies operating in Arctic Russia and northern Europe. In 2014 the company had 303 vessels, with a total dead weight of about 1.2 million tons. The company ran a notable museum in Murmansk.

Quoted from on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: —
Legal form: open joint-stock company
Country of registration: Russia
Headquarters: Murmansk
Formed in: —
Founded: 1939
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 68.9667, 33.0833

Ships on record here: 6
Vessel types operated: 4
Flag states used: 2
Average vessel age: 51.0 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1959
Newest vessel on record: 1989
Largest vessel by tonnage: 12,919
Average tonnage: 7,659
Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 6 vessels this registry attributes to Murmansk Shipping Company. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

By flag state

By shipbuilder

Laivateollisuus1

Meyer Wismar1

Nobiskrug1

Svendborg Skibsværft1

Wärtsilä1

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.

Year	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	—	6
2018	—	6
2019	—	6
2020	—	6
2021	—	6
2022	—	6
2023	—	6
2024	—	6
2025	—	6
2026	—	6

Vessel records

Ships on record

6 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
Kapitan Dranitsyn	7824405	Research / survey	Russia	1980	12,919	4,515	133.0 m	Wärtsilä
Varzuga	7500401	Tanker	Russia	1977	11,290	16,038	164.0 m	Nobiskrug
Klavdiya Yelanskaya	7422922	Unclassified	Russia	1977	4,329	—	100.0 m	—
MS Polaris	6807395	Passenger vessel	Russia	1968	2,097	—	70.6 m	Svendborg Skibsværft
Kotlas	8700113	Unclassified	—	1989	—	—	—	Laivateollisuus
Vatslav Vorovskiy	5429407	Unclassified	Soviet Union	1959	—	—	122.2 m	Meyer Wismar

Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How Murmansk Shipping Company compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 6 vessels attributed to it here, Murmansk Shipping Company is the 148th largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.

Russia is the country of registration for 22 commercial operators in this directory, among which Murmansk Shipping Company ranks 4th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 62 vessels here. See every operator registered in Russia.

Founded in 1939, Murmansk Shipping Company is 87 years old. This directory holds 30 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.