OREANDA-NEWS. Traditional meetings of the Volga Shipping management with workers of the fleet maintenance bases took place in December. On December 11 there was a meeting at the Volzhsky maintenance base (Volgograd region) and on December 16 - at the Borremflot shipyard (Nizhny Novgorod region).

The participants discussed navigation performance results, oncoming ship-repair issues and set tasks for the next year.

They touched upon a wide range of issues, including quality and timely purchase of spare parts and metal, effective work about complex fleet maintenance during navigation. Under conditions of difficult economic situation in the country a lot of questions discussed were devoted to vessels repair and measures to be taken for value engineering including direct shipment of spare parts and fuel from manufacturing plants.

The participants touched upon some issues of the collective labour contract, concluded by the Volga Basin Organization of Water Transport Workers Unions with the Volga Shipping Company management. All contract provisions are entirely observed.

During 11 months of 2014 over 2 thousand company workers, including almost all ship personnel and part of longshore workers received training and skill upgrade. Totally about 9 mln roubles have been allocated by the company for personnel training.

Following the performance results in 2014 19 captains and 7 mechanics of the Shipping Company received high industry awards of the Ministry of Transport of Russia -merit badges "For trouble-free operation on the river transport".