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Lukashists Brought the Once Successful River Industry to Ruin

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Lukashists Brought the Once Successful River Industry to Ruin

The property of the Belarusian River Shipping Company from the barge to the station was confiscated.

On the trading floor, which specializes in the sale of property converted to state revenue, several large real estate objects belonging to the Belarusian River Shipping Company are put up for sale at once, Flagshtok writes.

At the end of August, an auction was held to sell the building of the Mozyr River Station with an area of 2,840 sq. meters, where the head office of the enterprise is located. The starting selling price was 3,242,160 rubles ($ 1,312,553).

In September, an administrative building belonging to the river shipping company was put up for auction in Homel at Pushkin Street, 11. This building was erected for the needs of river departments in the pre-war period. Here, in addition to the administration of the Belarusian River Shipping Company, the Belarusian River Shipping Inspectorate and the RNUP Belsudproekt were located. The building is a historical and cultural value. The starting price of the auction was 2,438,100 rubles ($ 986,286).

Another object of the river industry is the old administrative building on Padhornaya street, 10. Its initial cost is 379,584 rubles ($ 153,553).

At that time they tried to sell a barge for 281,070 rubles ($113,701) to transport mineral and construction materials, containers, and heavy equipment belonging to the company.

In October, an auction was held to sell the building of the checkpoint Yuzhnaya in Mozyr. As a result, none of the lots has found any buyers.

The Belarusian river shipping company celebrates its 90th anniversary this year. During the years of the USSR, it was a successful enterprise that carried out freight and passenger transportation by river transport. In 1991, the volume of freight traffic reached 18.5 million tons.

Today one cannot even dream of such volumes. Competition from motor vehicles put the company on the brink of survival. RTUP Belarusian River Shipping Company has become a chronic debtor in paying taxes to the budget. However, the bankruptcy procedure has not yet been initiated against the company, in connection with which the appearance of the property of the river shipping company at the auction for the sale of real estate, turned into state revenue, causes a certain surprise. The fact is that the premises put up for auction are leased and are an additional source of income for the company, helping to stay afloat.

The likely reason for the sale of the property is the launched reorganization of the Belarusian River Shipping Company, which was announced in April 2021 by the Minister of Transport and Communications Alexei Avramenko during a visit to the enterprise.

In particular, they talked about the reorganization of the enterprise, taking into account the separation of transportation and port activities. And the main goal of the reorganization was called the adoption of short-term measures that would allow establishing the work of the river shipping company.

Indeed, after the sale of the buildings, the company will most likely be able to pay off debts, but how it will work further, having lost the property that brought income, is not yet clear.

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