All Volga-Dnepr Group articles – Page 4
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NewsAtran expands China freighter network to cater for e-commerce demand
Atran Airlines B737Russia-based Atran Airlines has added a new weekly freighter call in China as it looks to capitalise on growing e-commerce demand.The Volga-Dnepr Group-owned airline has added a weekly service between its hub at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow and Shijiazhuang, which will utilise its two freighter types: B737-400SF ...
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NewsVolga-Dnepr Group enters the B777F market with first delivery
The Volga-Dnepr Group has entered the B777 freighter market following the delivery of its first aircraft of the type.The aircraft was ordered by Volga-Dnepr in partnership with aircraft lessor Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) and adds to subsidiary AirBridgeCargo's fleet of B747 freighters."Volga-Dnepr is dedicated to the development and optimal composition ...
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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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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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Court denies Volga-Dnepr's restraining order request against Boeing
A US district court has rejected Volga-Dnepr UK's attempt to gain a temporary restraining order to stop Boeing selling four freighters that it had originally ordered.The dispute centres around the delivery of three B777Fs and a single B747-8F, some of which Boeing is the process of selling to another party, ...
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Volga-Dnepr in dispute with Boeing over freighter deliveries
Volga-Dnepr UK is suing the Boeing Company in a dispute over the delivery of four widebody freighters.The lawsuit, filed in a Washington district court, centres on the delivery of one Boeing 747-8F and three B777Fs that Volga-Dnepr had ordered from the airframer and were due to be delivered this year.The ...
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Volga-Dnepr Group ready to face market challenges
The Volga-Dnepr Group says it is ready to meet the current challenges faced by the air cargo market.In an interview with Air Cargo News, Volga-Dnepr executive president, charter operations, Konstantin Vekshin, said that the group is well positioned to meet any coronavirus-related cargo capacity shortages.He explained that in late January, ...
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Reports: AirBridgeCargo in negotiations on freighter lease deals
Russian press reports suggest that AirBridgeCargo (ABC) is in negotiations with lessors over five of its B747 freighters.A Kommersant report quotes Tatyana Arslanova, executive president of AirBridgeCargo, as saying that the airline has entered negotiations with lessors over a break in the lease deals or reduced rates.She said that negotiations ...
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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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Air Cargo News' Top 10 most read in 2019
With 2020 already underway, the Air Cargo News team decided that now is an ideal moment to share our most popular stories from the past 12 months. Despite 2019 being a challenging – and at times, unpredictable – year, there were significant positives, as our list below shows.So, which stories ...
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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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CargoLogicAir to halve fleet due to challenging market conditions
CargoLogicAir has announced it will reduce its freighter fleet by half early next year as it continues to battle “challenging market conditions”.The Stansted-hubbed airline said that in early 2020 it would reduce its B747 fleet to two aircraft from its current line-up of four – three B747-400Fs and one B747-8F.The ...
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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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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 moves to allay reports of financial woes
The Volga-Dnepr Group has downplayed Russian press reports regarding the scale of the current financial challenges it faces, stating that it has already initiated an optimisation plan to meet tough market conditions.A report in Ulnovosti states that the company was not immediately able to pay employees for September and that ...
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Time critical airfreight needs specialist handlers, says NAP
Time critical airfreight is a specialised area of logistics that not every forwarder, broker or carrier can handle, according to Christos Spyrou, chief executive, NAP (Neutral Air Partner).He was speaking to 100 delegates from across the international air cargo supply chain at the Time Critical Logistics Conference in Amsterdam organised ...
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ECS recruits van de Weg as ‘disruptive force’
ECS Group has recruited Robert van de Weg as chief commercial officer to act as “a disruptive force” to help the GSSA reinvent itself “to embody a new business model”.“We’re completely redefining the contours of what we do,” said Adrien Thominet, ECS Group chief executive. "We’ve created a robust set-up ...