Skif-Shipping
metinvest Holding Ltd. subsidiary
Metinvest Shipping (Ukrainian: Метінвест-Шиппінг), also known as Skif Shipping (Ukrainian: Скіф шиппінг) until 25 July 2012, is a Ukrainian transport company founded in 2000. As of 12 August 2006, Skif Shipping Ltd. is a subsidiary of Metinvest Holding Ltd. The company has branch offices in the cities of Mariupol, Sevastopol, Dnipro and Odesa. The company also employs people in Berdyansk, Chornomorsk, Izmail, Mykolaiv and Pivdenne.
Company profile
The Company’s operations cover the whole range of cargo transportation services: from railway carriage to port operations: customs clearance, cargo expediting, freight quantity control, Laboratory Tests, ship's agency services, chartering of seaborne vessels. Skif-Shipping is the only company which has joint operations with Mariupol Merchant Seaport State Enterprise.
By 2011, Skif-Shipping was the largest freight expeditor in Ukraine, as it handled over 20 million tonnes of cargo annually. This was done primarily through the Port of Mariupol. After its rebranding, it continued to grow and by 2018 was expediting 25.37 million tonnes of cargo.
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