AirBridgeCargo extends partnership with FCS
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has renewed its cargo handling contract at Frankfurt/Main Airport with Frankfurt Cargo Services (FCS), a subsidiary of Worldwide Flight Services (WFS). FCS, the largest independent cargo hander at the airport, has served AirBridgeCargo since 2008, and the new contract extension reflects the successful and growing partnership between the two companies. ABC currently […]
ABC Airlines undertakes five COVID-19 charters
AirBridgeCargo Airlines, part of Volga-Dnepr Group and one of the leaders in air transportations for the healthcare sector, has accomplished five Boeing 747F charter flights with packaging machines for COVID-19 associated materials from Frankfurt, Germany to Atlanta, USA. Over 200 tonnes of machinery was delivered under the National Healthcare Association project in co-operation with Geis […]
AirBridgeCargo extends WFS partnership
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has awarded a 10-year cargo handling contract to Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) in Liege, further extending the all-cargo airline’s global strategic partnership with WFS, the world’s largest air cargo handler. Under the terms of the new contract, as well as handling import and export cargo on AirBridgeCargo’s 15 Boeing 747 freighter flights […]
AirBridgeCargo Airlines signs as launch customer of WFS’ new Atlanta cargo terminal
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC), part of Volga-Dnepr Group, has signed a three-year contract to become the launch customer of Worldwide Flight Services’ (WFS) new cargo terminal at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (H-JAIA). Under the terms of the agreement, WFS will handle some 9,500 tonnes of cargo annually for AirBridgeCargo, carried onboard approximately 100 Boeing 747-400ERF freighter […]
AirBridgeCargo Airlines guarantees safe delivery of reindeer for Wuppertal Zoo
AirBridgeCargo, one of the leading all-cargo carriers in the transportation of live animals, has successfully delivered four reindeer from Moscow to Frankfurt. The transportation has been accomplished in partnership with Astra Brokers for Moscow Zoo, one of the oldest zoos in Europe. Under the regular animals’ exchange programme the reindeer were safely delivered to Wuppertal […]
The cuteness of logistics
AirBridgeCargo Airlines, a carrier within Volga-Dnepr Group, has safely delivered 54 cats and 25 dogs to new places of living, where “fluffy friends” will find their new families. A total of 35 boxes of Maine Coon, Siberian, Ragdoll, Bambino, Sphynx, Devon Rex, Bengali, British shorthair, and other cats together with 21 boxes of Chow-Chow, American […]
Sheremetyevo’s Moscow Cargo shown to airlines and forwarders
Moscow Sheremetyevo International airport demonstrated Moscow Cargo, the largest cargo complex in the country, to airlines and cargo forwarders two months after cargo on international flights transitioned to the new facility. The new complex covers an area of 42,300 sq m and a capacity of 380,000 tonnes of cargo. Moscow Cargo general director Vladimir Fedorenko […]
Major cargo expansion plans at Moscow’s main gateway
Moscow’s main cargo gateway Sheremetyevo International Airport and the hub of rapidly expanding AirBridgeCargo (ABC) Airlines has big plans to grow freight volumes. The first two months of 2017 have seen dynamic growth and according to the Airports Council International Europe, it handled 27,888 tonnes, a 29.7 per cent year-on-year (YOY) rise on 2016. This […]
AirBridgeCargo 747 charter demand grows 47%
AirBridgeCargo (ABC) Airlines saw Boeing 747 Freighter charter demand grow 47 per cent in 2016, in addition to continued growth of scheduled operations. Its latest flights were on behalf of DHL Global Forwarding for Evatec, a producer of thin film coating solutions used in wireless communications, advanced packaging, MEMS, optoelectronics, high precision optics and power […]
Volga-Dnepr helps set-up of natural gas plant
Volga-Dnepr Airlines has run charter flights and used scheduled freighter services through AirBridgeCargo (ABC) Airlines to transport equipment for the set-up of a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) production plant. The company operated a series of An-124-100 and IL-76TD-90VD charter flights and utilised ABC Boeing 747 Freighter services for deugro Airfreight – who was setting up the plant […]
ABC keeps on growing as Russia stabilises
AirBridgeCargo (ABC) Airlines has continued record-breaking growth, while Russian airport volumes have stabilised following the slump caused by economic sanctions, Volga-Dnepr Group senior vice president, sales & marketing, Robert van de Weg tells Air Cargo Week (ACW) staff writer James Muir. Cargo volumes at ABC, part of the Volga-Dnepr Group, grew 29 per cent in […]
Volumes grow with capacity for ABC
The growing number of airlines refusing to carry certain lithium batteries is helping AirBridgeCargo (ABC) Airlines’ volumes rise in line with capacity, Volga-Dnepr Group senior vice president of sales and marketing, Robert van de Weg tells Air Cargo Week’s staff writer, James Muir. ABC, which operates freighter aircraft only, has benefitted from the restrictions placed on […]
AirBridgeCargo blooms in February thanks to flowers
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has reported a 15 per cent growth in its airfreight volumes in February, transporting over 37,000 tonnes across its global route network in Asia, Europe, North America and Russia. The airline’s freight tonne kilometres rose three per cent over the same month last year when the airline saw an extraordinary demand for […]
AirBridgeCargo sees 27% tonnage growth
AirBridgeCargo Airlines’ (ABC) growth continues and in November it saw a 27 per cent uplift in cargo carried compared to the same month in 2014. November figures show ABC transported over 50,000 tonnes across its global network serving Europe, North America and Asia Pacific with overall results for the first 11 months of 2015 being 20 […]
AirBridgeCargo renews IOSA operational safety certification
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has successfully passed the audit procedures for compliance with the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) Operational Safety Audit (IOSA), renewing its certification for a further two years. The carrier says the extension of the IOSA certificate acknowledged its conformance with the highest global air safety requirements and follows a five-day inspection by […]
AirBridgeCargo launches Atlanta freighter route
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has added Atlanta (US) to its North American route network with the launch of twice-weekly flights. The new Boeing 747 Freighter services, which commenced today (20 November), operating on Fridays and Sundays and connects ABC’s global route network to Atlanta, maximising cargo connections to the growing U.S. market for ABC’s customers. At present, […]
ABC still on the up despite the weak rouble
AirBridgeCargo (ABC) Airlines has seen a year-on-year tonnage growth of 18 per cent in the first nine months of 2015 to 344,130 tonnes, and has also been expanding its network throughout the year. In September alone, the airline saw a 28 per cent rise to 42,480 tonnes. ABC says its freight tonne kilometres increased by […]