Part RTUE "Belarusian River Shipping Company" includes eight branch ports - Gomel, Mozyr, Rechitsa, Brest, Pinsk, Mikashevichi, Mogilev, Bobruisk. The largest port in terms of area is in Mozyr, and in terms of traffic volumes - Brest and Gomel. The superior organization for the shipping company is Department of Maritime and river transport , which is part of Ministry of Transport and Communications The Republic of Belarus.

Our conversation with the head of the RTUP (Republican Transport Unitary Enterprise) “Belarusian River Shipping Company” Gennady Semenovich Center began with a discussion of the issue of unusually high water levels for this time of year (June-early July) in the areas of Zhlobin, Rechitsa and Gomel, where the Zvyazdov brigade had to be on a business trip.

Rivermen like deep water, which facilitates the transportation of goods (there is no need to be afraid of shoals). This, on the one hand, is good, but on the other hand, rain interferes with recreational tourist flights.

In general, the current navigation along the rivers of the republic began later than usual (somewhere in March-April), and the maximum volume of cargo transportation, as always, occurs in the spring. Now it’s less, in a month it will be even less. By the way, the deepest river in the city is the Pripyat, and more cargo is delivered along it than along other waterways.

If we talk about the results of last year’s navigation, then last year 5047.6 thousand tons of cargo and almost 180 thousand passengers were transported. And what successes has the work of the enterprise been crowned with in the current six months, with what achievements has the team met its professional holiday, which is celebrated in early July? The opinion of the head of the shipping company on this matter is:

Now the most important success of any enterprise is the retention of personnel, because if there is no one to work for, there can be no talk of any success. We have enough people. There are even those among them for whom the riverboat profession has become a family one; there are production veterans who have connected their entire lives with the river. There is no shortage of work, its volume is slowly growing. Compared to last year, turnover is increasing, although not as much as we would like. But we are meeting all the targets we set, the salary has reached 3.5 million rubles (last year at this time it was more than 1.4 million rubles). We pay for sanatorium-resort treatment for our employees and give them a salary for their vacation.

The volume of cargo transportation in the shipping company is increasing every year, and it seemed that we should only rejoice at this. However, Gennady Semenovich believes that the most important thing is different, since it is not ton-kilometers that decide matters, as was the case in Soviet times (when, for example, to fulfill plans it was necessary to transport sand from Mogilev to Pinsk), but financial wealth. We need our supply to match demand. So far everything is in order with this, which is why there is a revival on the river arteries. This year, for example, the delivery of crushed stone from Mikashevichi to the Dnieper and Sozh was restored, which has not been observed over the past 18 years. This year, an international route has also been organized for the transportation of slag from Ukraine with its subsequent shipment to the Volkovysk cement-slate plant. Timber is also transported to Ukraine along Belarusian rivers. This is the second route.

Last year, however, at the end of the navigation season, diesel fuel was loaded from the Mozyr oil refinery to Ukraine in the port of Mozyr. The tanker was of Turkish origin, but the Belarusian flag was flying above it. The flight, as it turned out, was a test flight, and, probably, this experiment as an alternative to delivering petroleum products to Ukraine by rail gave good results.

We asked the head of the shipping company whether potassium fertilizers are now shipped along Pripyat and the Dnieper with their reloading in Nikolaevsky seaport, as it was before. He replied that the situation had changed: the company had set its sights on the ports of the Baltic countries. In general, the shipping company restored international cargo transportation by water in 2001, and Gennady Semenovich, who has been working there since 1983 after graduating from college in Leningrad, remembers this moment well.

- Apparently, this direction will find its development in the future?- we ask him. - After all, there is information that a port terminal will appear on the Dnieper in our republic.

That would be good. It is assumed that it will be built in the lower Zhary of the Braginsky district for foreign investment,” answered Gennady Semenovich.

Recently there has been a reorganization of the enterprise. It was joined in 2010 Rechitsa shipbuilding and ship repair plant, and this made it possible to create our own repair base for the fleet, which is of venerable age, and also expands the scope of specialized activities. Namely: to produce grabs, cabin cars, workshop cars, overpasses, water towers, various metal structures, etc.

Around the same time, the Minsk Sea section also became part of the shipping company. A large amount of landscaping work was carried out there: the area was landscaped, gazebos were built, etc. Three motor ships are assigned to it, and anyone can go on a tourist trip on them.

- What is the fate of the Gomel Shipbuilding and Shiprepair Plant, since it last years Didn't you work according to your profile?

This year in May he also entered our system. His team has been assigned specific tasks.

ABOUT tourist destination work Gennady Semenovich said this: in every port there are passenger ships, and it is proposed to conduct excursions and walks on them. There is a complete set for comfortable travel. In the summer season there will always be people who want to use these services, but in the rest of the months of the year this cannot be said. Nevertheless, there is a revival of traffic on the rivers of Belarus. Motor ships, tugs, self-propelled barges. And this puts you in an optimistic mood...

As of January 1, 2012, the shipping company has 8 units of the passenger fleet, 53 tugboats with a capacity of 300 horsepower each, 108 barges with a lifting capacity of 900 tons and 23 with a lifting capacity of 350 tons, 90 units of the auxiliary fleet - floating cranes, berths, landing stages, dredgers, pontoons, etc.

Reference

Training for water transport carry out:

  • Belarusian State University of Transport,
  • Belarusian National Technical University,
  • Svetlogorsk State Industrial College,
  • Gomel State Polytechnic College,
  • Gomel State Vocational School of River Fleet No. 30.

Vladimir Boyko, Elena Dovzhenok. Photo from the enterprise archive.

Marina in Bobruisk

Berezina River in Bobruisk.

The river port of Bobruisk - a branch of the Republican Unitary Enterprise "Belarusian River Shipping Company" - is located at the address: lane. Zatonny, 12-a.

The river port of Bobruisk was founded in 1970 and is located on the 174th kilometer of the Berezina River.

The port is designed for processing bulk cargo. There are driveways railways. The length of the berth line is 560 meters.

To carry out work, the river port has at its disposal:

3 tug boats;

12 non-self-propelled fleet units;

2 dredging machines;

Story.

It is difficult to say from what year the Bobruisk port dates its history, but in 1805 the construction of the Berezinsky canal system, connecting the basins of the Dnieper and Western Dvina, was completed.

Canoes loaded with timber, as small ones were called sailing ships, 50 meters long, they began to come out even to Baltic Sea. Such ships moved along the Berezina using barge force. After the advent of steamships, life on the Berezina became livelier, new piers began to be built, and old ones were enlarged.

“The waterway, navigable along the Berezina River from the city of Bobruisk to the confluence with the Dnieper and its tributaries: Ola and Prodvinka (Brozha) - belonged to the 9th distance of the 11th branch of the 11th district of communications. The main pier and the chief's residence was the city of Bobruisk. On the Berezina River, the permanent and only pier for loading and unloading ships is Bobruisk... The heavily forested Bobruisk district, together with Borisov district, belongs to the group of infertile ones that need the supply of grain. Salt and various types of bread therefore absorb almost all imported trade.

In a six-year period (1855-1860), an average of:

salt – 71,362,

oats – 60 355,

various types of flour - 53,618,

rye – 10,822,

croup – 9886,

millet and millet – 8894,

wheat – 5460,

buckwheat – 3725,

barley – 1101,

peas, beans and beans - 371 pounds.

Total bread - 154,232 poods.

From 1947 to 1953, in Bobruisk there was a department for the transport development of small rivers under the executive committee of the regional Council of Deputies.

Bobruisk pier existed until 1970, and then was renamed a port. Together with the Dnieper-Berezinsky enterprise, the port began to belong to one department - the Ministry of Transport and Communications. During these years he played a prominent role in the life and economy of the city. Then it was easier to get to some villages by river rather than by bus.

Schoolchildren's excursions around the Berezina were commonplace. Bobruisk residents could take a boat ride on a day off, order water transport to have a picnic in nature. In the beach area, ships transported vacationers to the opposite shore. Tug boats constantly plied along the river with rafts, barges with ore, stone, rubble, etc.

Cargo transportation decreased sharply after the collapse of the USSR, and at the same time, cargo transportation by river became unprofitable, i.e., 4 times more expensive than by rail.

The main raw material – sand – has become profitable to extract only in nearby “sleeves”, i.e. near the place where it is stored, and if it is 20 km or more away, then its transportation becomes unprofitable.

Currently, the annual sales of sand, taking into account out-of-town orders transported by road and rail, is 250 thousand tons. The prospect is for the construction industry to boom, but then the port may not have enough capacity and equipment.

And whose port does not have a passenger ship.

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Belarus, as you know, has no access to the sea. And in this regard, many residents of the republic do not even imagine that the country has its own fleet, even a river one. Telegraph correspondents were able to verify that the Belarusian fleet exists personal experience, having visited river port Bobruisk (which, by the way, is one of the eight branches of the Republican Unitary Enterprise "Belarusian River Shipping Company"), and after having traveled ten kilometers with the cargo on a towing ship.

He told us about the work of the Bobruisk port and the Belarusian shipping company Chief Engineer port Grigory Artemchik. According to him, the management of the Belarusian river fleet is carried out by the Republican Unitary Enterprise "Belarusian River Shipping Company" with its center in Mozyr. In addition to the port in Bobruisk, it includes seven more river ports: Gomel, Mozyr, Rechitsa, Brest, Pinsk, Mikashevichi and Mogilev. Grigory Artemchik noted that it is the shipping company that coordinates the activities of all ports, depending on what tasks the shipping company faces, uses “this or that watercraft, if it is free, and sends it to any point in Belarus where it can be delivered.”

Thus, the ships of the Bobruisk port, although they work mainly on the Berezina, but in 2008-2010 they worked in the port of Gomel and also reached Turov. Today, one of the Bobruisk dredgers (a vessel designed for dredging and extraction of non-metallic minerals) building materials) works in the river port of Mogilev.

The main activity of the port of Bobruisk today is the transportation of construction mineral cargo. Basically, this is sand, which is mined from the bottom of the Berezina to ensure navigation on it in the summer. “The dredger loads sand onto non-self-propelled barges, motor ships tow the barges to the port, and then we unload construction sand using portal cranes,” noted the port’s chief engineer.

“To go, for example, to Mikashevichi for crushed stone is very far. You have to go to the Dnieper, go through Ukraine to Pripyat to Mikashevichi - this is a very large circle over a distance of 830 km (while the distance from Mikashevich to Bobruisk by rail is only 300 km Therefore, such transportation this moment No. However, notes the chief engineer, river and railway transport complement each other.

"There are places where Railway does not reach, and we can transport crushed stone and any other cargo there. Shipping was a little forgotten as a mode of transport, but now it is slowly beginning to revive. The Belarusian River Shipping Company begins to work closely with Ukraine: we transport granulated slag, carry out timber transportation, and transport oil products. “This is largely done by the Mozyr river port and adjacent ports,” he says.

“Last year, our ship participated in the transportation of oversized cargo for the Novolukoml and Berezovskaya State District Power Plants. Apparently, this year there will be some deliveries as well. We plan to take part in these transportations along the Berezina River,” said Grigory Artemchik. In the last three years, Bobruisk ships also transported timber for the Svetlogorsk pulp and cardboard mill from the Berezino pier, where timber was harvested.

The port of Bobruisk currently employs 67 people. In operation there are three towing ships, two dredgers, five non-self-propelled barges with a lifting capacity of 1 thousand tons and two non-self-propelled barges with a lifting capacity of 350 tons, two floating reloaders, which are used when working where there are no portal cranes (in Svetlogorsk, Parichi). In total, in 2012 the Bobruisk port had 300 thousand tons of transportation, this year 350-400 thousand tons are expected.

“We work as soon as the ice melts and before freeze-up. Naturally, in the spring, when the waters are high, we can make maximum use of the carrying capacity of our barges. After working in May and June in Bobruisk and accumulating sand for construction organizations in Bobruisk, we will go to work in Svetlogorsk. In In July-September, of course, the loading of ships decreases due to the lack of depth, but since we are constantly deepening the bottom, we try to maintain the volume of transportation. Winter period We use it to repair the fleet, both in the port itself and at the Rechitsa and Gomel shipbuilding and ship repair plants, which were recently annexed to the shipping company,” he noted.

In addition, according to Grigory Artemchik, the port is now closely involved in the delivery of construction sand for the needs of individuals. “People come, order, and we load right on the spot without involving third parties. And, thanks to this, we receive additional income,” said the chief engineer.

He also noted that Belarus fully provides itself with personnel for the Belarusian shipping company, as well as ships. Thus, the command staff of the fleet is trained by the Svetlogorsk State Industrial College. People emerge from it as second mates to the captain or commander of the dredger. Gomel State Vocational School of River Fleet No. 30 trains motor mechanics. In addition, senior command personnel are trained there. Engineering and technical personnel are trained by the Belarusian State University of Transport and the Department of Shipbuilding and Hydraulics at BNTU. “The training of all personnel in Belarus has been streamlined,” emphasized Grigory Artemchik

The production of passenger ships is currently carried out by the Pinsk Shipyard. Three passenger ships Its production has recently been running in Mogilev and Vitebsk. “Previously, the production of thousand-ton barges was carried out by the Rechitsa shipbuilding plant. Tugboats were produced by the Pinsk and Gomel shipbuilding plants, 350-ton barges by the Petrikovsky shipbuilding plant. And there was a shipbuilding plant in Bobruisk, but in 1986 it was combined with the port under the Soviet Union,” - said the chief engineer.

Grigory Artemchik also noted that during the ten years of his work at the port there were no significant incidents. According to him, all problems are being resolved as usual.

At the same time, Alexander Livanovich, a second-generation river captain, on the ship under whose control Telegraph correspondents set sail, said that anything could happen. So, according to him, it had happened many times before that ships were stranded and had their bottoms broken on rocks. In such cases, barges often had to be unloaded, towed, and repaired.

"Once upon a time this was the case. Now everyone is trying to big water transport. As the water begins to fall more, they will be transferred to Svetlogorsk. It won’t be profitable here: the fuel is burned, and there is little cargo to transport. There are places here where there are a lot of stones. If you get a little overloaded, that’s the only way you’ll get through,” the captain noted.

The only woman in the Bobruisk port, the cook on the ship that sheltered us, Anna Maksimova, also had to stand aground, and she treated Telegraph journalists to her dishes. Although, according to her, the saying “it’s unfortunate for a woman on a ship” is not about her. “Once four barges with timber were pulled from Berezino. So we sat aground for six days. It seemed like the shore was close, but there was no way to get out. Being aground, we had to bake bread ourselves and do everything. It was such that we had no water. They got water three kilometers away. Everything was done,” she said.

According to Nikolaevna, this is her eighth navigation, but her first on this ship. The ship she sailed on earlier has been undergoing repairs in Rechitsa since this year. Nevertheless, she says, the team here is “young and good.” “Everyone especially loves potatoes. Even if you spread them on bread, they will eat potatoes. I bake pies and buns. The river asks for food, so we don’t take the kettle off the stove,” says the cook.

On a tugboat our route lay from river port Bobruisk to Lukova Gora on the very outskirts of the city, where a dredger with a filled river sand by barge. Despite the fact that both the port and Onion Mountain are located in Bobruisk, it took about 2.5 hours to walk against the current along the numerous bends of the Berezina. At Onion Mountain, the ship's crew deftly replaced the empty barge with one filled with sand, and the ship set off on its return journey. The journey back was not so long and took only 1.5 hours - the current helped. Having delivered the barge to the port, the ship set off again, albeit without journalists.

Maxim Gatsak. Photo by Nadezhda Gatsak

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The main enterprise transporting domestic and foreign trade cargo by water transport in the Republic of Belarus is the Belarusian River Shipping Company. The parent organization in relation to the Belarusian River Shipping Company RTUE is the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Belarus, in which the water transport sub-sector is headed by the Department of Inland Water and Sea Transport. The department manages the enterprises of the sub-industry in order to coordinate their activities and develop priority directions for the development of water transport of the republic. Management is carried out by orders of the Ministry, which are mandatory for implementation by all divisions and enterprises of the sub-industry, including the Belarusian River Shipping Company. The river port of Gomel (Branch) was created as a branch of the Republican Unitary Transport Enterprise "Belarusian River Shipping Company" (Enterprise).

The branch was created in the manner prescribed by law by the Enterprise in agreement with the Owner, is indicated in the Charter of the Enterprise, and is directly subordinate and accountable to the Enterprise. The branch is endowed with the property of the Enterprise. The branch was created to develop inland water transport.

Is a separate structural division of the Enterprise;

Not a legal entity;

Is directly subordinate to the Enterprise - Republican Transport Unitary Enterprise "Belarusian River Shipping Company", legal address: Republic of Belarus, Gomel region, Mozyr, 247760, st. Sovetskaya, 27A. Registered in accordance with Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus No. 11, the Civil Code of the Republic of Belarus by decision of July 31, 2000 No. 462 in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs;

Conducts all transactions (not contradicting the current legislation of the Republic of Belarus, the Charter of the Enterprise and the Regulations) on behalf of the Enterprise on the basis of powers of attorney issued by the Enterprise to the head of the Branch;

Has a separate balance sheet with subsequent inclusion in the consolidated balance sheet and reporting of the enterprise;

Has current and other accounts in banks of the Republic of Belarus, a round seal, stamps, forms with its name and the name of the Enterprise, other attributes;

Carries out its activities in accordance with the current legislation of the Republic of Belarus, the Charter of the Enterprise, licenses issued to the Enterprise, orders, instructions, and other governing documents of the Owner and the Enterprise.

The branch is independently responsible for all obligations arising as a result of its activities, in accordance with the current legislation of the Republic of Belarus, the Charter of the Enterprise.

Location and postal address of the Branch: Republic of Belarus, Gomel, 246050, st. Podgornaya, house 2.

The purpose of the branch's activities is to carry out economic activities aimed at generating profit to satisfy the social and economic interests of members of the workforce of the Branch, the Enterprise and the Property Owner.

All types of activities of the Branch, as a separate structural unit of the Enterprise, are provided for by the Charter of the Enterprise, the Regulations on the Branch are carried out in accordance with the current legislation of the Republic of Belarus.

The branch carries out the following types of economic activities in accordance with the list of activities approved by Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus dated July 14, 2003 No. 17, for which special permission (license) is required:

Transportation of passengers and cargo by road, inland waterway, sea transport;

Activities in the field of industrial safety;

Activities in the field of communications;

Activities to ensure the safety of legal entities and individuals;

Retail trade (including alcoholic beverages and tobacco products) and catering.

Thus, the management structure chart gives us a visual representation of the organization of the branch’s production activities. Shows the composition of departments and their relationships in the process of enterprise management.

The port manager supervises and manages the activities of the entire enterprise. Sets goals and objectives for the team, outlines ways to solve them and monitors the fulfillment of assigned responsibilities. Directly subordinate to him: Deputy Port Manager, Chief Engineer, Chief Accountant, as well as engineering and technical workers of the port.

The responsibilities of the deputy head of the port include managing the financial, economic and operational activities of the port, taking measures to timely conclude contracts with suppliers and buyers, monitoring the implementation of product sales indicators, achieving established profit indicators and other financial indicators; for the correct use of working capital. Organization of warehouse operations, creation of conditions for proper storage and safety of material resources and finished products, resolution of issues related to organizing the extraction of construction sand, securing a package of orders for the existing technical capabilities of the port of Gomel. Planning the use of the fleet on cargo and passenger lines, organizing the preparation and coordination of technical documentation for organizing transportation, developing plans and measures for the development of transport and commercial services of the port, providing general management of the work of the fleet, the work of master dispatchers and the protection of a convoy of ships, monitoring compliance rules, norms, requirements and instructions on safety and industrial sanitation, participation in the selection, training and placement of personnel. Subordinate to the deputy head of the port is the fleet, warehouses, workshops, cargo area, and control room.

The chief engineer is assigned the following functions:

Management of the port's production activities;

Organization of work to improve the qualifications of subordinate employees;

Ensuring healthy and safe working conditions for subordinate performers, monitoring their compliance with the requirements of legislative and regulatory legal acts on labor protection.

In turn, the head of the energy-mechanical section and technical operation navy and mechanization engineer. The head of the fleet technical operation section has subordinate technical departments and port services.

The chief accountant organizes accounting of economic and financial activities and monitors the economical use of material, labor and financial resources, the safety of port property, ensures the legality, timeliness and correctness of document execution, monitors compliance with the procedure for processing primary and accounting documents, settlements and payment obligations , spending the wage fund, establishing official salaries for port employees, conducting an inventory of fixed assets, inventory items and Money, audits of the organization of accounting and reporting, as well as documentary audits in the port departments. Interacts with banks on the placement of available funds on bank deposits (certificates) and the acquisition of highly liquid government securities, monitoring the conduct of accounting transactions with deposit and loan agreements, securities. Ensures the preparation of balance sheets and operational summary reports on income and expenses of funds, the use of the budget, other accounting and statistical reporting, and their submission in the prescribed manner to the relevant authorities. Manages accounting staff.