Domodedovo Airport (Moscow) continues taking measures aimed at reducing environmental contamination, the company's press service informed.

In particular, in the first quarter of 2017, the airport will partially re-equip its fleet of electric vehicles and its equipment with lithium-ion traction batteries which will substantially reduce the volume of hazardous emissions during the operation of baggage tractors.

Besides, lithium-ion traction batteries can store about 20-25% more energy, while its charging time is 4-5 times less than that of lead-acid batteries.

Domodedovo International Airport Corporation (tax number: 5009026330) is the largest airport of Russia accounting for 46% of the total air passenger traffic in Moscow. It operates flights of 83 airlines to 239 destinations worldwide, among them 84 unique destinations for Moscow and Moscow region. The airport maintains partnership with 40 airlines from outside the FSU, 27 Russian and 16 CIS airlines.

In January-September 2016, the passenger flow at Domodedovo airport decreased by 8.7% to 22.2 million from 24.325 million for the same period in 2015.

According to AK&M Information Agency's DataCapital information retrieval system, RAS net profit of Domodedovo International Airport Corporation for 2015 decreased 9.4 times to RUB 53.169 million from RUB 499.868 million the year before. Revenue decreased 9.38 times to RUB 465.801 million from RUB 4.37 billion, sales profit of 54.6 times to RUB 5.026 million from RUB 274.4 million, pre-tax profit 9.46 times to RUB 52.362 million from RUB 495.434 million.