In 2016, AirBridgeCargo Airlines (operating as part of Volga-Dnepr Group) increased its cargo turnover by 26.6% to 4.914 billion tonne-kilometers from 3.881 billion the year before, Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency informed.
Cargo and mail handling decreased by 4.6% to 501.365 thousand tonnes from 525.308 thousand tones. Revenue load factor decreased by 1.3 p.p. to 66.8%.
According to Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency, the company currently ranks first in the cargo transportation volume.
AirBridgeCargo Airlines LLC (ABC, tax number: 7704548011) is the biggest Russian regular cargo air carrier providing air transport services from Asia to Europe and the USA over the territory of Russia using aircraft of the Boeing 747 family. The average age of its fleet is just over 4 years.
In January-November 2016, the cargo turnover of AirBridgeCargo Airlines increased by 26.7% to 4.482 billion tonne-kilometers from 3.538 billion for the same period in 2015.
Volga-Dnepr is an international group of companies specializing in cargo air transportation which is among the ten global leaders in this business. The Group includes the two leading Russian cargo air carriers, Volga-Dnepr (charter carriage of over-tonnaged and outsized cargoes using An-124-100 and IL-76TD aircraft, and AirBridgeCargo Airlines providing scheduled air cargo transportation services using B747 aircraft. Volga-Dnepr provides unique and outsized cargo transportation services. Another core business of the group is the maintenance and repair of domestic and foreign aircraft complementing its cargo carriage services within the framework of the "cargo supermarket" logistic business model.











