Antonov flies compressors for oil rig from Stansted
Antonov Airlines has moved compressors and equipment from London Stansted Airport for an oilrig in the Far East. It used an Antonov AN-124-100 to carry the three compressors weighing 22 tonnes each destined for the Far East, which flew from Stansted to Paris Vatry Airport to pick up other equipment, before a number of stops […]
Volga-Dnepr flies three more satellites to Guiana Space Center
Volga-Dnepr Airlines has transported three more space satellites to the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana in support of its long-standing partnership with Bollore Logistics and Thales Alenia Space. It was the first time Volga-Dnepr used new lightweight and easier-to-stow aluminium extension ramps to load and unload satellites, which weigh less and take up less […]
Volga-Dnepr flies helicopters to Chile to tackle wildfires
Volga-Dnepr Airlines was called upon to deliver four helicopters to fight wildfires plaguing the Chilean countryside. Helicopter Express, contractors to the US Forest Service and the Department of Interior, called upon Volga-Dnepr to transport three Bell 205 helicopters, a K-MAX 1200 helicopter and a flatbed truck and trailer, on an Antonov AN-124-100 from Atlanta to […]
Oil & gas flying high as Volga-Dnepr transports equipment to Seoul
Volga-Dnepr Airlines is benefitting from the upturn in the movement of oil and gas cargo with its latest delivery of pump and vaporiser skids to Seoul, South Korea. Volga-Dnepr used one of its Antonov AN-124-100s to transport the cargo from EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg in Switzerland to Incheon International Airport on behalf of Air Charter Service France’s […]
Volga-Dnepr and Antonov to end Ruslan International joint venture
Volga-Dnepr Airlines and Antonov Airlines are to end their Antonov AN-124-100 joint venture, Ruslan International from 31 December 2016. The joint venture was founded in 2006 to jointly market the combined AN-124-100 fleets with the aim of improving availability of the aircraft’s unique ramp loading capability. Volga-Dnepr Group says the business collaboration with Antonov will […]
Volga-Dnepr brings power to Zimbabwe
Volga-Dnepr Gulf has brought power to Zimbabwe by transporting a 200MW diesel-fuelled power plant to Harare for power provider Aggreko. Ruslan International, the Antonov AN-124 joint venture between Volga-Dnepr Airlines and Antonov, was contracted to fly the 79 tonne shipment with Volga-Dnepr Gulf providing a full logistics support on the ground. The bulk of the […]
Volga-Dnepr completes air-sea delivery of patrol boats
Volga-Dnepr Airlines has shown it can complete air-sea deliveries by delivering four patrol boats to the Far East of Russia and then launch them at the port. The four Mangust patrol boats were built at the Vympel Shipyard in Rybinsk for the Border Guard Service were carried onboard two Antonov AN-124-100 ‘Ruslan’ flights from Tunoshna […]
FIA16: CargoLogicAir to transport Bloodhound speed record car
CargoLogicAir (CLA) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Bloodhound Project to transport the World Land Speed Record attempt car to South Africa. The new airline, a subsidiary of Volga-Dnepr Group will use its Boeing 747-8 Freighter it took delivery of on Friday 8 July to transport the Bloodhound SSC from the UK to […]
Volga-Dnepr transports telescopic crane bridge
A loading system developed for the transportation of long aerospace cargoes provided the perfect solution to help load a 35-metre telescopic bridge onboard a Volga-Dnepr Airlines’ An-124-100 freighter for its delivery to Rio de Janeiro. The flight, organised under the Ruslan International An-124 joint venture between Antonov Airlines and Volga-Dnepr Airlines, carried the 35-ton shipment […]
Volga-Dnepr engineers unique frame for oil rig compressor
Volga-Dnepr Airlines has transported a 59 tonne compressor from Zurich to Singapore for an oil rig, which required the Engineering & Logistics Centre (ELC) to design a unique transportation frame to move it. The engineers designed the frame to spread the weight of the compressor throughout the cargo cabin of the Antonov AN-124-100 and protect […]
Volga-Dnepr aids mission to find life on Mars
Volga-Dnepr Airlines has operated three Antonov AN-124-100 flights from Italy to Kazakhstan carrying equipment and materials for the ExoMars space exploration programme to see if there is life on Mars. The flights for logistics company, Bollore Logistics, departed Turin on 18, 20 and 22 December for consignor, Alenia Space Italy, for Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome via […]
