"Volgograd River Port" was founded in 1862, it was reconstructed and modernized after the Great Patriotic War. In the 1970s, after the opening of branches and the commissioning of cargo berths in the town of Volzhsky and Kamyshin, the construction of forest berths in Volgograd equipped with modern transhipment equipment, the enterprise became one of the largest river ports in Russia on the Volga. Open Joint-Stock Company "Volgograd River Port" was established in 1994 by corporatization and privatization of the Volgograd River Port, Volga River Shipping Company. Volgograd River Port OJSC is a joint-stock company, which owns 25.5% of the state's shares, 74.5% is privately owned by legal entities and individuals. JSC "Volgograd River Port" (GRP) is located on the left and right banks of the river. The Volga. The spatial boundaries of the port are determined by individual sections of the operational activities of its branches associated with the transport of goods and passengers. JSC "Volgograd River Port" carries out the following activities: cargo transportation, both by own fleet, and chartered by agreement of the client; transportation of passengers on intraurban and suburban lines, the organization of walks and excursions; transshipment of cargo arriving to the port in ships, wagons and motor transport; reception, accumulation, storage and reloading of packaged cargoes, including oversized structures, bulk cargo, for which the port has warehouses and open and closed storage areas at the quays; complex fleet maintenance at port raids; extraction and production of non-metallic building materials. Volgograd is the largest transport hub in the South of Russia. Here the water, railway, road and air routes converge. Volgograd River Port carries out (and) cargoes such as: metal products (square, circle, strips, etc.), various pipes, aluminum, alumina, scrap metal, technical sulfur, etc. In addition, we transport passengers, serve ships , we carry out cargo transportation by our fleet, we extract river sand. Specialists of all river port services make every effort to find the best option for mutually beneficial cooperation, taking into account the interests of our partners. Close cooperation with forwarding and agent companies allows the Volgograd River Port to efficiently implement complex services for ships and cargoes. The five-beam radial configuration of transit freight traffic with the center in Volgograd provides rail transportation in the following directions: the northern direction provides the railway communication of the Volgograd region with the large industrial centers of the Volga region: Saratov, Samara, Ulyanovsk and Kazan; the north-western direction connects Volgograd with Moscow, the industrial centers of the Central Black Earth and Central Economic Regions; the western direction connects the region with Donetsk-Pridneprovsky district and its coal, metallurgical, machine-building and chemical enterprises; the south-western direction opens the way to Novorossiysk, Rostov-on-Don and other centers of the North Caucasus region; the south-eastern direction leads to Astrakhan and further to Kazakhstan and Central Asia.