Lesson 2. Black Sea Shipping companies.
1. Find the translation of following words and word combinations.
Exciting a) морское побережье
The market b) штаб-квартитра
To be on the rise c) ходить под флагом какой-либо страны
The demand d) заниматься чем-либо
The service e) рынок
Coast f) уровень управления
Coastline g) требование, запрос, спрос
Shore h) береговая линия
In the short run i) персонал (штат)
In the long run j) возбуждающий, волнующий, захватывающий
To fly the one’s flag k) вскоре, в ближайшее время, в ближайшем будущем
State owned enterprise l) подниматься, быть на подъеме
The headquarters m) служба, услуга
Management level n) в общем, в конце концов, в конечном счете,
со временем
To be busy with o) государственное предприятие
Personnel (staff) p) берег (моря, океана, озера)
2. Transform one part of speech into another and translate them into Russian.
Глагол или существительное + -ive = прилагательное
To active – действовать-active – деятельный, действительный
To intensity – интенсивность – intensive – интенсивный
To conserve, progress, effect, mass, to react.
Суффикс существительного -ure:
nature, culture, structure, manufacture, future, measure, feature, agriculture.
Префикс super- (сверх, супер) :
Supernatural, superpower, supergenius, supercomputer, superman, supermarket, supersonic, superhot, superconductor.
3. Write down and translate synonyms and antonyms.
Tiny-small, to disappear-to appear, a lot of-many, different-various, next-following, short-long, to watch-to see, program-show, commonly-usually, less-more, possible-impossible, true-untrue, small-large, nowadays-at present, now, large-tremendous, advance-progress, to start-to begin, major-main, to report-to announce, to occur-to take place, convenient-suitable, exciting – unexciting, smaller-bigger, rise-ascend, merchant-fishing.
4. Read correctly the geographical names.
Sea
of Marmara
[
],
Mediterranean [
],
Bosporous
[
],
Dardanelles
[
]
, Georgia
[
]
, Turkey [
],
Bulgaria
[
]
, Rumania
[
]
, Crimea
[
]
, Caucasus [
],
Danube
[
].
5. Read and translate the text.
The times, we live in, are exciting. Markets are changing, the world is becoming smaller, the dynamics and tempo in the business world are on the rise. At the same time, the demands and services are growing.
The shipping industry is one of the most fast-paced and ever-developing streams, which give rise to the facet of healthy competition among various shipping companies, vying for absolute operational superiority.
The Black Sea is a very important sea route as it leads to the Sea of Marmara and the Mediterranean through Bosporous and Dardanelles . The Black Sea borders on six countries: Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Turkey, Bulgaria and Rumania. Its coastline is 1,130 km long from the east to the west. And 611 km long from the north to the south. The shores of the Crimea and the Caucasus are particularly beautiful.
Ukrainian Black Sea ports are operated by some shipping companies, the largest of which are Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company, Ukrrichflot, Ukrferry, Commercial Fleet of Donbass, Transship and Chernomortekhflot.
In times of the former USSR the Black Sea Shipping Company, set up yet in 1833 and based in Odessa, was one of the largest shipping companies in the world and the largest in Europe. By 2006 the number of the vessels owned by that company became 20 times less and in the short run the company practically ceased to exist as a ship owner. The deadweight of the fleet under the Ukrainian flag for 20 years of independence shrank by 6 times. In the long run, according to the data of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) the fleet flying the Ukrainian flag occupied 72nd place in the world, whereas at the beginning of the 1990s the Ukrainian fleet was in 25th position. Thus, at the beginning of 1993 the deadweight of the merchant fleet of Ukraine was more than 6 million tons and in 2010 was less than 1 million, just 904,000 tons. At the same time, a great number of small private shipping companies have been set up on the territory of the present Ukraine in place of the not numerous state shipowners.
The Danube Shipping Company is a state owned enterprise. Its headquarters is situated in Odessa. It has two levels: management level and operational. Management level is busy with paper work and defines the strategy of the company’s policy. Masters of the ships and chief officers belong to operational level. Training center of the Danube Shipping Company is famous all over Ukraine and has highly qualified personnel (staff).
The Danube Shipping Company has over 200 seagoing vessels, the total deadweight of which is about 60 mln tons. It has passenger fleet and merchant fleet. Merchant fleet consists of different types of ships: container ships, dry cargo ships, bulk carriers. This company operates modern cargo ships which carry different kinds of goods to practically all the biggest ports of the world. Passenger cruise liners of the company sail along different routes. Odessa is the largest passenger port on the Black Sea.
BLASCO is the member of Black Sea International Shipowners Association which consists of shipping companies of Ukraine, Russia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Romania and Ukrainian River fleet as well. BLASCO helps to communicate and cooperate with mentioned above members.