VOLGA-DNEPR AIRLINES
OUTSIZED CARGO CARRIERS

Volga-Dnepr Airlines is the world’s leading outsized cargo carrier.

We specialise in transporting super-heavy and outsized cargo and operate the world’s largest fleet of Antonov AN-124-100 aircraft.
The company was founded in 1990 as the first private Russian airline not related to Aeroflot.
Today we operate ten Stage 3 compliant AN-124-100 freighters and three IL-76TDs.
The carrier also operates three passenger-carrying YAK-40s.

All the AN-124s and at least one IL-76 have been modified to comply fully with international standards and regulations. Upgrades include improved engine and airframe service life, avionics and systems including TCAS.
We build sky bridges for unique loads, helping to save time and opening new business horizons for our partners.

MEETING HEAVY CARGO DEMANDS
What differentiates our services from the services offered by other airlines?

• We will operate to/from the airports that cannot accommodate conventional freighters
• We will deliver your cargo on time, meeting agreed deadlines
• We will carefully and quickly load your cargo onto the aircraft based on any specific requirements and instructions you might have
• We will deliver your valuable hi-tech products to their final destination, avoiding additional and costly risks inherent to transhipment operations when using several modes of transport (ocean, railroad, trucking) that may seem cheaper at first glance
• Thanks to the unique capabilities of the An-124-100, we will deliver loads that are not suitable for converted freighters (B-747F, MD-11F, etc.)

For 10 years we have been ensuring prompt and reliable airlifts for cargo of almost any kind, size and weight: outsize and heavy machinery, general and volumetric cargo, airplanes and engines, satellites and rocket sections, cars and locomotives, factories and plants.

OIL AND GAS TRANSPORTATION
No other charter air carrier has such experience in the transportation of outsize and heavy oil equipment.
A unique advantage of Volga-Dnepr and its AN-124-100 aircraft is the capability to move outsize and heavy industrial equipment.

The huge capacities offered by our AN-124-100s allow us to airlift most of the equipment without prior partial dismantling.
This advantage, combined with capability to carry loads weighing up to 120t and proprietary on-board loading equipment, has made Volga-Dnepr’s freighters an indispensable component of the logistic system for the oil and gas industries.

HELPING POWER INDUSTRIES
With our assistance British Petroleum was able to start exploration of the El Yopal oil field in Colombia two years earlier than originally planned.
On our wings automobile productions were transferred from Europe to Latin America.
We transported turbines and power generators for Siemens, Mitsubishi and other companies that provide electricity and heat in many cities worldwide.

Volga-Dnepr Airlines has a steady demand for the transportation of oil and gas extracting equipment into Russia and CIS countries.
Volga-Dnepr has performed a lot of flights to move drilling, oil field, oil processing and gas treating equipment, as well as heavy-duty trucks and bulldozers, including the following large-scale airlift operations:

Geco Prackla – 1992 – from Calgary, Canada to Surgat, Russia
ODI Dynamics – 1993 – from Talsa, USA to Nizhevartovsk, Russia
FIP Industries – 1997 – from Venice, Italy to Baku, Azerbaijan
Industrial and oil gas equipment accounted for 13% of the loads carried by Volga-Dnepr in 2000.

INVESTING IN MODERNISATION
Volga-Dnepr was one of the first to initiate the modernisation of An-124-100 aircraft. Since 1990 the company has invested about 60 million dollars in the acquisition and modernisation of aircraft. The company’s whole An-124-100 fleet conform to Chapter 3 noise standards. All the aircraft are equipped with radio stations of 8.33kHz frequency grid, and have navigation equipment supporting organised flight tracking. The service life for the airframe and engines was extended to 24,000 hours in 2000.

Volga-Dnepr UK Ltd
Room B144, First Floor
Enterprise House
London - Stansted Airport
Essex CM24 1QW, United Kingdom
Tel: + 44-1279-661-166
Fax: + 44-1279-661-103
Email: sales@volga-dnepr.co.uk
URL: www.vda.ru

For ten years, Volga-Dnepr Airlines have been ensuring prompt and reliable airlifts for cargo of almost any kind, size and weight	We operate the world’s largest fleet of Antonov AN-124-100 aircraft	The huge capacities offered by our AN-124-100s allow us to airlift most of the equipment without prior partial dismantling	Volga-Dnepr has performed a lot of flights to move drilling, oil field, oil processing and gas treating equipment	Since 1990 the company has invested about 60 million dollars in the acquisition and modernisation of aircraft