Russian Steam Navigation and Trading Company

of Odessa was one of the biggest joint stock steamship companies in Imperial Russia.

ROPiT was established in 1856 and ceased to exist in 1918 due to nationalization after the revolution in Russia.

[1] In 1858 the company obtained a 24-year contract for usage of the port of Villafranca Marittima, on the Mediterranean with the Kingdom of Sardinia.

[2] from 1863 to 1914 all Russian post offices in the Ottoman Empire were run by the ROPiT.

For example, weekly services on the routes "Constantinople-Smyrna-Piraeus-Alexandria, Constantinople-Odessa" - every fortnight the Bulgarian ports of Burgas and Varna were also called in - and "Constantinople–Sevastopol".