Volga-Dnepr delivers equipment for Biathlon World Cup Finals

Volga-Dnepr Airlines has delivered equipment for participants of the Biathlon World Cup 2011/2012 finals from Munich, Germany to Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. In addition, broadcast equipment was also carried to the regional capital of Russia’s Western Siberia for live reporting of the sporting event on a major Russian federal TV channel.

Twelve of the fifteen tons of freight flown onboard Volga-Dnepr’s Ilyushin IL-76TD-90VD aircraft comprised sports equipment and outfits for athletes representing the biathlon squads of 25 countries, including such prominent biathlonists as Magdalena Neuner (Germany), Emil Svendsen (Norway), Carl Bergman (Sweden), Andrey Makoveyev (Russia), Andrea Henkel (Germany), Darya Domracheva (Belarus) and others.

The flight was chartered by YugraMegaSport — the event organizer from Khanty-Mansiysk. As part of the service, Volga-Dnepr also arranged for ground transportation of freight from Ruhpolding in Germany, which hosted the recent Biathlon World Championships from 29 February to 11 March, to Munich Airport and took care of all necessary customs clearance formalities.

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The Biathlon World Cup finals of the 2011/2012 season open in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia on 14 March and will see 205 athletes competing from 25 countries. The event will close the winter series of international biathlon competition stages which started in Östersund, Sweden on 28 November 2011.

Volga-Dnepr Group offers outstanding expertise in providing transport logistics solutions for sports and other mass events. In January 2011, one of its AN-124-100’s carried stage equipment for the 7th Winter Asian Games opening ceremony from Hamburg, Germany to Astana, Kazakhstan. In March 2009, Volga-Dnepr Airlines delivered complete biathlon facilities (spectator stands, shooting range, pavilions, TV broadcast screens, etc.) from Kazan in Central Russia to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia’s Far East. In June 2007, Volga-Dnepr’s AN-124-100 brought to Guatemala a unique quick-mounted ice rink to support the Russia city Sochi’s successful bid to host the 2014 Winter Olympic Games.