Volga-Dnepr Group supports victims of the Haiti earthquake

Volga-Dnepr Group has delivered over 110 tonnes of essential cargo to Porte-au-Prince following the devastating earthquake in Haiti which hit the county on  August 14.  The Group was able to adapt its fleet of versatile freighters and organize two charter flights – aboard An-124-100 and Il-76TD-90VD – to deliver relief cargo which included tents, water […]

Volga-Dnepr Group considering launching MC-21 freighter

Romcargo's US foreign carrier permit accepted

Last week during MAKS 2021, International Aviation and Space Salon held in Zhukovsky Russia, Volga-Dnepr Group delegation headed by chairman of the board, Alexey Isaykin, visited MC-21-300, the new generation Russian passenger plane which is going to be manufactured in several modifications from 150 up to 211 seats. Volga-Dnepr Group representatives have marked the extended […]

Leipzig/Halle Airport and Volga Dnepr set up Covid panel discussion

Leipzig/Halle Airport and Volga Dnepr invite people to attend a panel discussion session about the German contribution to distributing COVID-19 vaccinations around the globe. “What can Germany do to help distribute vaccinations around the globe as quickly and as fairly as possible?” This question is the central focus of a digital panel discussion session, to […]

Volga-Dnepr operates three charters to India

Volga-Dnepr Airlines has operated three charter flights to India from China, Ireland and Germany carrying out an aid & relief mission to help the nation in its battle against severe COVID-19 resurgence. Over 200 tonnes of vital medical equipment containing oxygen storing containers, concentrators and cryogenic containers were delivered onboard An-124-100 and Il-76TD-90VD to various […]

ABC flies art

AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has delivered more than two hundred art objects on scheduled flights from Moscow (Russia) to Hong Kong (China) aboard a Boeing 747-8F cargo plane. Together with the ART-Courier company, ABC specialists organised the transportation of museum valuables from the collection of the Moscow Kremlin Museums for the exhibition “All Russia Autocrat. Holiness […]

Volga-Dnepr Airlines and Leipzig/Halle Airport to establish emergency logistics hub

Volga-Dnepr Airlines, part of Volga-Dnepr Group, and Leipzig/Halle Airport (LEJ) have inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to set up an emergency logistics/humanitarian hub. The decision comes as a logical step for further development of long-lasting strategic co-operation between LEJ and Volga-Dnepr Group. Both parties agree to strengthen their unique services in the humanitarian sector, […]

Volga-Dnepr steps up as e-commerce booms

Remote working, shop closures and social distancing have become the norm for many globally and this shift in lifestyle has led to a huge increase in e-commerce. “The e-commerce sector has been booming for the last decade in general and in 2020 in particular, driven by the pandemic situation and lockdowns,” explains Fedor Novikov, marketing […]

Flexibility, speed, adaptability: How Volga Dnepr weathered the storm

Volga Dnepr CCO, Konstantin Vekshin, reflects on what helped VD weather the storm of 2020. “2020 has been a turbulent year for many industries, with air cargo being no exception. But we managed to cope with the challenges, adjusting our flight schedule, planning charter flight programmes, operating urgent charters to guarantee delivery of much-needed cargo […]

Volga-Dnepr Group demonstrates over a three-fold surge in e-commerce sector

Volga-Dnepr Group’s air cargo carries – AirBridgeCargo Airlines and ATRAN Airlines – have achieved over three-fold increase in e-commerce volumes for the first nine months of 2020. Over 75,000 tonnes of dedicated packages with online purchases were delivered globally throughout the carriers’ networks onboard Boeing 747 and Boeing 737 freighters, with the major contributing trade […]

Volga-Dnepr’s Cargo Supermarket spins healthcare logistics

Volga-Dnepr Group continues to support the life-saving uninterrupted supply chains through its dedicated services and Cargo Supermarket offered in partnership with DHL Global Forwarding LS&H sector experts. This time AirBridgeCargo Airlines and CargoLogicAir organided delivery of insulin in a batch of Envirotainer and DoKaSch RAP containers from Milan to Chicago. The finely honed performance of […]

ATRAN Airlines works in tandem with Volga-Trucks

ATRAN Airlines (ATRAN), an express cargo carrier within Volga-Dnepr Group, has  accomplished a complex multi-modal delivery of spare parts for Porus Burner Unit. The delivery was organised in partnership with SIS Logistik from Frankfurt (Germany) to Perm (Russia) and included various transportation modes. Once trucked from Frankfurt to Kцln, the equipment was loaded onto ATRAN’s […]

Volga-Dnepr step up for the pharma industry

Volga-Dnepr Group has been facilitating global flows of healthcare products through its Cargo Supermarket concept. The concept combines both scheduled and charter services to increase efficiency of cargo flights. Like much of the aviation industry Volga-Dnepr greatly assisted the pharmaceutical industry throughout the pandemic. This August AirBridgeCargo and its dedicated team of pharma experts organised the […]

Volga-Dnepr speeds up completion of Thuan Nam 12 solar power plant

Volga-Dnepr Airlines, the world’s leader in oversized and super-heavy air cargo transportation, has organised a charter flight with high voltage equipment onboard to empower construction of a 450MW solar power plant in Vietnam.   An-124-100 took off from Mumbai to Cam Ranh, Vietnam with a 30-tonne shipment after the charter request was processed in co-operation […]

VDTM ATC receives EASA approval for providing B 777-200/300 aircraft type training

Volga-Dnepr Technics Moscow Aviation Training Centre (VDTM ATC) has obtained a European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) approval to provide Boeing 777-200/300 (GE 90) aircraft type training to B1 and B2 categories of engineering and technical personnel. Since August 2020, VDTM ATC instructors have been able to provide theoretical and practical parts of training to all […]

Volga-Dnepr marks long-standing link with K+N Russia after two decades

Volga-Dnepr Airlines and Kuehne +Nagel have recently partnered on a flight delivering a power turbine from East Midlands, UK to Russia to mark 25 years of working together. The 4.5-tonne shipment was loaded into Volga-Dnepr’s IL-76TD-90VD aircraft using its onboard crane system and then expedited to its final destination on time. “We always were of […]

Changes in the board of directors of Volga-Dnepr Group

There gas been a number of changes in the board of directors of Volga-Dnepr Group. The restructured line-up includes: ·                 Alexey Isaikin – chairman of the board, the founder and co-owner of the Volga-Dnepr Group with over 40 years of experience in the aircraft and civil aviation industry. ·                 Sergey Shklyanik – deputy chairman, co-owner of the Volga-Dnepr […]

To space and beyond with Volga-Dnepr

On May 18, Volga-Dnepr transported an Atlas 5 rocket booster to Cape Canaveral, Florida, for a scheduled mission to Mars. The AN-124-100 ‘Ruslan’, is the only aircraft large enough to carry the Atlas 5, and flew the 32m rocket booster, from Huntsville, Alabama to its final launch location. In addition to the over-length piece, Volga-Dnepr […]

CharterSync takes an AN-124 to the sky

Time-critical and Go-Now charter experts CharterSync put its platform to the test when a freight forwarder wanted a 50-tonne shipment moved from Ostend to North Carolina at short notice. The machinery, at 458 m cu, needed specialist handling loading and transportation. The complexities of the shipment required multiple cranes and an available Antonov-124. The Antonov-124-100 […]

Volga-Dnepr helps control Ebola virus outbreak

Volga-Dnepr Group has assisted the Merieux Foundation’s efforts to control the Ebola virus outbreak by flying mobile bio-medical laboratories. An Antonov AN-124-100 was positioned at Lyon-Saint Exupery Airport, France on Tuesday 8 October for the foundation and its logistics partner Bioport Logistique. The three 40 foot “plug and play” mobile container laboratories built in the […]

Glushnev named general director of AirBridgeCargo

Nikolay Glushnev has been appointed general director of AirBridgeCargo Airlines as Volga-Dnepr Group restructures following a disappointing first half of 2019. The group, which consists of AirBridgeCargo, Volga-Dnepr Airlines and Atran Airlines says cargo volumes were down 6% to 2.5 billion freight tonne kilometres, 20% below expectations and budget. The slow air cargo market, overcapacity […]

Liege Airport and Volga-Dnepr cement partnership

Volga-Dnepr Group and Liege Airport have signed a memorandum of understanding to reinforce their strategic cooperation to set up a regional hub. The agreement serves as an extension of the memorandum signed last summer between the airport, Volga-Dnepr and CargoLogicAir with the aim of strengthening positions of the three companies in the European market. The […]

Volga-Dnepr to develop Leipzig/Halle as a multimodal hub

Volga-Dnepr Group has signed a memorandum of understanding with Mitteldeutsche Flughafen to develop Leipzig/Halle Airport as a multimodal hub for scheduled and charter operations. The memorandum of understanding was signed in the presence of Saxon state minister of finances, Dr Matthias Hass at the 53rd International Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, France. Both companies […]

Leipzig/Halle organises humanitarian conference

Leipzig/Halle Airport, working with the Volga-Dnepr Group and the Akkon University of Human Sciences organised a specialist international conference focusing on humanitarian logistics. About 60 representatives from research institutes, government and non-government organisations, logistics companies, airports as well as airlines attended the event held in Leipzig on the fringes of the OECD’s International Transport Forum […]

Atran Airlines links Hangzhou with Riga for Cainiao

Atran Airlines has added a new route to its network between Hangzhou, China and Riga, Latvia for Cainiao Network e-commerce shipments. The flights from Hangzhou, the emerging technology hub and home of China’s e-commerce will operate on Thursdays using a Boeing 737-800BCF, providing up to 23 tonnes of cargo capacity for Alibaba Group’s logistics arms. […]

Atran Airlines connects Xi’an with Moscow

Volga-Dnepr Group’s express carrier Atran Airlines has linked Xi’an, China with Moscow, Russia, connecting Chinese retailers with Russian consumers. The first flight was operated by a Boeing 737-400SF with further plans to deploy a Boeing 737-800BCF with up to 23 tonnes of cargo capacity per flight on the route. The flight was operated with the […]

WFS to support ABC’s growth plans at Liege Airport

ABC approved to transport lithium battery shipments

AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has chosen Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) as its handling partner at Liege Airport ahead of the opening of the first phase of its cargo area at the end of 2019. The cooperation is in support of the strategic partnership signed between ABC’s parent company, Volga-Dnepr Group and Liege, boosting the airline’s volumes […]

Atran Airlines welcomes first 737-800BCF to fleet

Volga-Dnepr Group’s express carrier, Atran Airlines has taken delivery of its first Boeing 737-800BCF, increasing its fleet to five aircraft. The new freight has already operated its first flights from Moscow Vnukovo to Norilsk and Yakutsk carrying consumer goods for the population of the Siberian and Far Eastern parts of Russia including perishables, general cargo […]

Volga-Dnepr signs MoU with Cainiao Network

Volga-Dnepr Group has signed a memorandum of understanding with Alibaba Group’s logistics arm, Cainiao Smart Logistics Network to strengthen cross-border shipments. With the boom in e-commerce worldwide, the two companies will form a partnership for different joint projects in cross-border trade. The airline guarantees access to its network and fleet of 41 aircraft, while Cainiao […]

Volga-Dnepr opens operations base in Houston

Volga-Dnepr Group has opened an Operations Base at Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport to serve customers across North and South America. The base is an expansion of the group’s sales office, which opened in 2001, and will ensure customers will benefit from immediate local expertise and services to meet their logistics requirements. Volga-Dnepr Group executive […]

Atran Airlines to lease two 737-800Fs from GECAS

Atran Airlines has signed a lease agreement with GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) for two Boeing 737-800 converted freighters. The passenger-converted aircraft are scheduled for delivery in late 2018 and the first half of 2019. They will provide additional capacity for Volga-Dnepr’s express carrier, joining the existing fleet of three Boeing 737-400 Freighters. GECAS senior […]

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