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NewsFirst Volga-Dnepr AN-124 back in the air
Volga-Dnepr has re-introduced its first AN-124 back into service after the carrier took the decision to temporarily ground the aircraft on safety grounds.On December 29, the Russian airline said that the first of its 12 AN-124s was back in action following the completion of technical checks and execution of service ...
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NewsVolga-Dnepr Airlines transport 430 tonnes of power plant equipment to Afghanistan
Volga-Dnepr Airlines has partnered with Blue Water Shipping to carry out a number of flights using its Antonov-124-100 ramp freighter aircraft to support the construction of a new power plant in Afghanistan.The "technically complex and challenging project" involved 430 tonnes of equipment being transported for 'Bayat Power Phase 1', which ...
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NewsVolga-Dnepr and Scan Global deliver vaccines to Turkmenistan
Volga-Dnepr Group and Scan Global Logistics have teamed up as part of a UN vaccination programme to deliver 80 cu m of vaccines and medical supplies to Turkmenistan.Vials containing vital Diphteria/Hepatitis and BCG vaccine doses, as well as other medical supplies, were transported under temperature-controlled conditions on two charter flights ...
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Volga-Dnepr moves fire engines to assist in California fires
Volga-Dnepr Airlines has carried out an An-124-100 charter flight for the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to assist the bushfire firefighting efforts in California.The carrier moved two fire engines and a Ford F-250 pick-up truck, weighing more than 20 tonnes in total, from Atlantic City in New Jersey to ...
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NewsVolga-Dnepr Airlines teams up on charter flight to Moria refugee camp
Volga-Dnepr Airlines has teamed up with Chapman Freeborn Airmarketing to carry out a charter flight to deliver aid to refugees at the Moira camp on the Greek island of Lesbos.The majority of the camp and neighbouring areas were recently destroyed by a huge fire, which resulted in more than 12,000 ...
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Volga-Dnepr Group notes 'stable' first-half results
Volga-Dnepr Group, which is in its 30th year of operations, said it has performed with "stability and consistency" in the first half of this year.Total revenue across the Group's three airlines (Volga-Dnepr Airlines, AirBridgeCargo Airlines and ATRAN Airlines), was up by more than 40% year on year, which was achieved ...
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NewsVolga-Dnepr moves solar power plant equipment to Vietnam
Volga-Dnepr An-124Volga-Dnepr Airlines has flown high voltage equipment to be used in the construction of a 450MW solar power plant in Vietnam.One of the airline's An-124-100 took off from Mumbai, Indi, to Cam Ranh, Vietnam, with the 30-tonne shipment after the charter request was processed in cooperation with Bee Logistics ...
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NewsVolga-Dnepr's quick O&G turnaround
Volga-Dnepr Airlines has completed a charter flight to deliver of oil & gas equipment for P-cube aviation.Four compressors and two rotors, weighing more than 26 tons, were delivered onboard an IL-76TD-90VD from Singapore to Melbourne (Australia) for urgent repair and maintenance works.The airline processed all flight permits within one day ...
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NewsAirBridgeCargo in record pharma shipment
AirBridgeCargo Airlines has moved 41 RKN containers — a "record amount", it said — for DSV on a scheduled flight from the Amsterdam, the Netherlands to Shanghai, China.The carrier flew the containers, which were manufactured by CSafe Global and contained more than 30 tonnes of temperature-sensitive pharma, on the lower ...
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NewsVolga-Dnepr partners with K+N to transport power turbine
Volga-Dnepr Airlines has teamed up with Kuehne+Nagel (K+N) to move a power turbine from the UK to Russia.The cargo, which weighed 4.5 tonnes, was loaded into Volga-Dnepr’s An-124 aircraft (IL-76TD-90VD) aircraft using its onboard crane system before being flown to the Midlands, UK.Oleg Makushkin, head of procurement and airline relations, ...
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NewsVolga-Dnepr Group expands Cainiao partnership with Madrid freighter flights
Volga-Dnepr Group (VDG) has added a new freighter flight from Hong Kong to Madrid on behalf of the Cainiao Network — e-commerce giant Alibaba's logistics arm — to cater for growing demand.The flights, which will operate via Liege, will be carried out by VDG's AirBridgeCargo using its B747 freighter aircraft. ...
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Volga-Dnepr Group restructures in light of Covid-19
The Volga-Dnepr Group is restructuring the organisation of the business in order increase flexibility by streamlining processes and speed up decision making.The changes mean that the airline group’s offices will have direct links to the points where decision are made by reducing the number of local vice presidents.Meanwhile, sales offices ...
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NewsAirBridgeCargo offers charter flights to meet coronavirus-related demand
Volga-Dnepr Group coronavirus flightsThe Volga-Dnepr Group has been operating as many as five "sterilised" charter flights into China each day to cater for coronavirus related demand.The group said that on average, three to five charter flights are being operated daily, with a number of preventive measures being taken to ensure ...
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Volga-Dnepr confirms capacity-increasing An-124 upgrade
Volga-Dnepr has confirmed the upgrade of one of its An-124 aircraft to increase capacity.The upgrade has increased the aircraft's capacity by 20 tonnes, allowing a maximum total cargo payload of up to 150 tonnes. The upgrade now enables a single piece of cargo, weighing up to 120 tonnes, to be ...
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AirBridgeCargo and CargoLogicAir to cancel freighter connections
Volga-Dnepr Group (VDG) subsidiary AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) and partner airline CargoLogicAir will cancel a total of eleven freighter connections as of November 1, writes Oliver Link in Air Cargo News sister title DVZ.According to the leading German logistics newspaper, five of these routes concern UK-registered CargoLogicAir. The remaining six routes ...
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CharterSync in the big league with first An-124 freighter move
Recently-launched air charter platform CharterSync put its systems to the test when a freight forwarder wanted a 50-tonne shipment moved from Ostend to North Carolina at short notice.An Antonov-124-100 freighter, owned and operated by Volga-Dnepr Group, was chartered to fly the 458 cu m machinery, which needed specialist handling loading ...
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Volga-Dnepr to cut 100 jobs and reduce An-124 fleet, report claims
In a move that reflects challenging airfreight market conditions, Volga-Dnepr will reportedly take one or two of its An-124 aircraft out of action and make 100 job cuts.According to Russian Aviation Insider (RIA), the airline has reduced its An-124 fleet from 12 to eight aircraft over the past two years ...
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NewsVolga-Dnepr delivers bio medicines in fight against Ebola
Last week (October 8) Volga-Dnepr undertook an emergency cargo flight carrying mobile biomedical laboratories to assist the Mérieux Foundation in its fight against the Ebola virus.One of Volga-Dnepr's fleet of twelve An-124-100 aircraft was especially positioned in Lyon-Saint Exupery airport in France to respond to the urgent needs of the ...
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Volga-Dnepr Group to restructure management team after tough first half
The Volga-Dnepr Group has announced it will restructure the business after performance in the first half of the year was below expectations.The group, which includes AirBridgeCargo (ABC), Volga-Dnepr and ATRAN, said that its restructuring plan aimed at quality enhancement, cost reduction and the development of specialist services.As part of the ...
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Volga-Dnepr dismisses court's An-124 seizure order as unlawful
The Volga-Dnepr group has dismissed a Ukrainian court's order to seize five of its An-124-100 aircraft.The Russia-headquartered airline group told Air Cargo News that it deems that the order of the Podolsky District Court of Kiev related to a ban on the use and operation of five An-124-100 civil aircraft ...
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