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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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Alibaba to launch China-Russia freighter services
Alibaba's logistics arm Cainiao has teamed up with Aviastar-Tu and Pochta Russia to launch freighter flights carrying e-commerce goods.According to a report in Reuters, Cainiao will lease seven freighters from the two Russian companies to launch daily flights from China to Moscow, Yekaterinburg and Krasnoyarsk on behalf of AliExpress Russia.The ...
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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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Mixed results for CargoLogicAir as it looks to future growth
UK-based all-cargo airline CargoLogicAir saw its revenues almost double last year but losses deepened.According to figures just released, the B747 freighter operator reported a 99% year-on-year increase in revenues for the 2018 calendar year to £213.7m, but its net loss reached £18m, compared with £2.5m in 2017, and its operating ...
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NewsCargoLogic Germany ready to go as AOC confirmed
After a protracted process, the CargoLogic Germany team is ready to goThe German civil aviation authority has confirmed CargoLogic Germany (CLG)’s Air Operator Certificate and the new carrier is now ready to start commercial operations.The Leipzig-Halle-based carrier said it would initially focus on providing short-term capacity across Europe but aimed ...
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Antonov distances itself from Ilyushin revamped An-124
Antonov has called for a revamped variant of the An-124-100 aircraft being developed by Russia's Ilyushin Design Bureau to be given a new designation on the grounds that the updates will result in key changes to the aircraft's performance.Reports suggest that Ilyushin is developing deep modifications to the An-124-100 and ...
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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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NewsFreighter operators approve oil capping stack skid
Oil Spill Response Ltd (OSRL) has purchased a second air transport skid for its capping stack in Singapore, with Russia’s Volga-Dnepr Airlines and Ukraine-based Antonov Airlines both verifying the skid for use on their freighter aircraft.Konstantin Vekshin, executive president of charter cargo operation at Volga-Dnepr, said: “Using nearly three decades ...
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NewsVolga-Dnepr marks the passing of Ron King
Ron KingFormer Volga-Dnepr stalwart and US air cargo veteran Ron King passed away on July 19 at the age of 76.The airline said that King had "left an immense imprint on the air cargo sector in the US in general and on Volga-Dnepr’s development in particular"."With almost 50-years' experience in ...
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CargoLogic Germany gains NCC approval as it taxis for takeoff
New Leipzig-based airline CargoLogic Germany has announced that it recently gained non-commercial (NCC) operations approval from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency.The airline said the NCC approval means it can begin “route proving flights” this week.Meanwhile, managing director Ulrich Ogiermann has told Air Cargo News sister title DVZ that he ...
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NewsVolga-Dnepr Group firms up entry into B777F market
Volga_Dnepr-DAE Signing CeremonyThe Volga-Dnepr Group has firmed up its entry in the B777F sector with a lease deal for three of the aircraft from DAE Capital, following on from the confirmation of an order for nine of the aircraft with Boeing.DAE said that it had entered in a sale and ...
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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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Ukrainian court orders seizure of five An-124s
A court in Ukraine has ordered the seizure of five of Volga-Dnepr’s An-124 aircraft.In a statement, Ukraine-based law firm Ilyashev & Partners claimed that the Podilskyi District Court of Kiev had ordered the arrest and prohibited the operation of the aircraft on the grounds that maintenance checks have not been ...
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NewsLeipzig/Halle hosts humanitarian conference
On May 21, Leipzig/Halle Airport, Volga-Dnepr Group and the Akkon University of Human Sciences ran an international conference on humanitarian logistics, which took place on the fringes of the OECD’s International Transport Forum currently under way in Leipzig.Götz Ahmelmann, chief executive of Mitteldeutsche Flughafen AG and chairman of the board ...
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Volga-Dnepr Airlines is the wizard of Oz for 80 tons of energy equipment
Volga-Dnepr Airlines has transported 80 tons of energy equipment from Germany to Australia for General Electric to support the construction of a 32-turbine renewable energy wind farm.A 36-ton wind turbine hub, four metres in length, and three 12.6-ton generators were positioned inside the Antonov 124-100 freighter at Cologne-Bonn airport using ...
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NewsAtran Airlines boosts e-commerce links between Chinese retailers and Russian consumers
The Atran Airlines crew at Xi'an Xianyang International Airport ahead of the first departure to Moscow Sheremetyevo airportRussian air express carrier Atran Airlines has launched a freighter route linking Xi'an in China with Moscow Sheremetyevo airport, optimising connections between Chinese retailers and Russian consumers.The first flight by the Volga-Dnepr Group ...
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