AIRBRIDGE CARGO BRINGS A GIRAFFE TO THE MOSCOW ZOO

Moscow, October 11 2004. – Volga-Dnepr Group’s scheduled airline AirBridge Cargo delivered a 14-month old giraffe to the Moscow Zoo from Luxemburg.

The giraffe was transported onboard a scheduled Boeing 747-200F flight to Domodedovo international airport and handed over to representatives from the Moscow Zoo on Tuesday 12 October 2004. For transportation of the “live cargo” the specialists at AirBridge Cargo, came up with a bespoke container providing the giraffe named ‘Twiga’ maximum comfort. The giraffe was under the supervision of a vet for the duration of the three hour flight.

Twiga arrived in Moscow from “African Safari Wild Life” centre. She is the second giraffe presented to the zoo by Alec and Luba Wildenstein. The Moscow Zoo representatives are very grateful to the Wildenstein family for their very unique gift.

Volga-Dnepr Group has accumulated many years experience resulting in enviable expertise in transporting live stock, flora and fauna. Examples of the most extraordinary include: delivering the Christmas tree for New York’s Rockefeller center from Cleveland (Canada), the temporary relocation of the Prague Zoo to Indonesia, delivery of a whale from Nice (France) to Nagoya (Japan), delivery of 11 dolphins from Japan to Taiwan.

Notes:

Volga-Dnepr is an international group consisting of aviation, trucking and insurance businesses. Its offices are located in Russia, the USA, UK, China, Ireland and the UAE. The Group’s activity is aimed at promoting the unique An-124-100 product in the global air cargo market.

Volga-Dnepr Group is the market leader in the global movement of heavyweight and outsized air cargo, controlling 51-percent market share in 2003. Among its permanent customers are such companies as Lockheed Martin, Exxon Mobil, Alcatel Aerospace and many other top global businesses that see Volga-Dnepr as an integral part of their logistic chains.

Volga-Dnepr has a fleet of ten An-124-100s, two IL-76s and six YAK-40s. Its scheduled cargo airline business, AirBridge Cargo, also operates two Boeing 747-200s. Volga-Dnepr’s Group employs more than 1,300 people of 20 nationalities.

Launched by Volga-Dnepr Group, AirBridge Cargo is Russia’s first international scheduled cargo airline linking Asia and Europe and has been successfully provided high quality scheduled air cargo transportation services since May 2004.

In China and Russia, AirBridge Cargo conducts sales via its own offices but in Europe it uses Air Cargo Trader (ACT) and International Aviation Services (IAS) as its general sales agents. With extensive sales networks across Europe, both companies have a proven track record of marketing B747 cargo capacity.