Focused effort to develop cargo in Moscow

As Russia’s largest cargo airport, Moscow Sheremetyevo International Airport is focusing efforts on improving infrastructure and the quality of service for customers and airlines. In late 2017, the Moscow Cargo terminal was commissioned, a one-of-a-kind facility in Russia with a total area of 42,300 sq m. It is designed to handle 380,000 tonnes of cargo […]

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 […]

Transfer cargo at Moscow almost doubles up to November

Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International airport handled over 290,000 tonnes of cargo and mail in up to the end of November this year. This is 30 per cent more than the same period last year. The volume of mail increased by 42.4 per cent, to 30,000 tonnes, over the same period. The first 11 months of 2017 […]

Moscow’s air cargo market primed for further expansion

The last year or two has been turbulent in Moscow due to the impact of European Union sanctions and the Ukraine conflict hitting Russia, but the capital’s airfreight market is well and truly back on track. In the first seven months of the year, the Airport Council International Europe reports Moscow Sheremetyevo International Airport handled […]

Work completed on largest cargo terminal in Russia

Sheremetyevo International Airport has completed construction of Moscow Cargo – the largest cargo terminal in the Russian Federation and it will go into operation next month as the city gets set to welcome the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Rosaviatsiya – the Federal Agency of Air Transport – has issued a permit so the $80 million facility, […]

Domestic traffic make up for falling imports at Sheremetyevo

Aviation in Russia, along with the country’s economy, had a difficult year in 2015, with imports noticeably decreasing, but domestic traffic has been better, Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport tells Air Cargo Week. The airport says sanctions, falling oil prices and the strength of the US dollar made 2015 challenging for the Russian economy and for […]