Media Coverage
11-11-2008
Volga-Dnepr Held First Company Forum
On 10 November was announced, that the Forum involved active discussions on Hub Model Development among top management of the Volga-Dnepr Group, managers, sales and marketing experts from the AirBridgeCargo affiliates in Germany, the Netherlands, China and Japan. More...
RIA "OREANDA" 10.11.2008
07-11-2008
An-124 flies Superjet 100 airframe to fatigue-test centre
Sukhoi has transported the sixth Sukhoi Superjet 100 airframe (MSN 95006) to Novosibirsk where it will undergo fatigue tests with the Siberian Aeronautical Research Institute. More...
Flight International 05/11/2008 By Max Kingsley-Jones
30-10-2008
Kibo’s EF and ELM-ES arrived at NASA KSC
(JAXA) - The Exposed Facility (EF) and Experiment Logistics Module-Exposed Section (ELM-ES), Kibo’s remaining components to be delivered to the ISS, were shipped from the Tsukuba Space Center (TKSC) to NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida in September 2008. More...
JAXA 28.10.2008
17-10-2008
Thinking Big
The Volga-Dnepr Airline Company was established in 1990. The fleet comprises 10 AN-124-100 Ruslan aircraft and 14 IL-76s, including two modernised IL-76TD-90VD versions of the aircraft that have been approved by ICAO for worldwide operations. When one of these outsize freighters lands, it certainly makes its presence felt. Trevor Sweeting is the Operations Manager at Volga-Dnepr and his job is to make sure there are no surprises on the ground. More...
Airline Handling International 11.2008
29-09-2008
All change at AirBridge
FORMER Flyington Freighters and Etihad boss Robert Strodel has joined Russian all-cargo airline AirBridge Cargo with immediate effect. Denis Ilyin is leaving the Volga Group after over 13 years of service, to take up a new role working for Moscow-based investment firm Basic Element. More...
AirCargo News 16.09.2008
17-09-2008
2,000th issue - Ship of the skies
People scoffed when, in the late 1980s former Soviet Airforce lieutenant colonel Alexey Isaikin had the idea of commercialising the USSR's freighter aircraft fleet. More...
International Freighting Weekly 15.09.2008
11-09-2008
WWPC claims record IL-76TD lift
WOLFGANG Karau, director of WWPC, the Worldwide Project Consortium, is claiming a new world record for a single-piece load carried by a 40-tonne payload IL-76TD freighter. More...
Air Cargo week 08.09.2008
03-09-2008
Major move for GAC with Antonov AN 124
GAC Singapore recently concluded a major air and sea freight charter using four of the world's largest long-range heavy transport aircraft, the Antonov AN124, to move six huge gas compressors from Europe to Southeast Asia. More...
Payload Asia 08.2008
03-09-2008
Volga-Dnepr reports record revenue growth
Total group turnover of US$840 million in the first half of 2008. More...
Payload Asia 08.2008
27-08-2008
$150M Volga-Dnepr Loan
Volga-Dnepr, the world's largest airline carrying oversized cargo for customers including armies, said Tuesday that it had borrowed $150 million to repay existing debt. More...
Bloomber 26.08.2008
