AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has reported
that 2016 is already a record-breaking year, following a further 30% year-on-year
growth in tonnage in October to 57,608 tonnes.
With two
months of the year still to go, ABC has achieved its thirteenth
consecutive year of growth.
In the 10 months ended 30 October
2016, the airline carried 498,177 tonnes across its growing
international route network, a rise of 29% over the same period in
2015. Last year, the airline set a record of 483,000 tonnes flown.
Robert van de Weg, Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing at
Volga-Dnepr Group, ABC’s parent company, said: “Our continued
strong growth is based on staying close to our customers and
ensuring we support them with cargo capacity when and where they
most need it. In such a challenging air cargo market, it is
important to earn customer trust in the quality and reliability of
your service and to demonstrate the ability to provide responsive
solutions – now increasingly for special cargo categories like pharmaceuticals and off-size cargo.”
The new record is
based on tonnage flown onboard AirBridgeCargo’s own Boeing 747
cargo fleet and on ACMI partner aircraft.
2016 has seen
further expansion of the airline’s cargo network with new routes
to meet the requirements of its global customers. A new
Houston-Abu Dhabi operation was followed by the introduction of
all-cargo services connecting ABC’s global hub in Moscow with
Chongqing in China, Phnom Penh in Cambodia, Seattle in the U.S,
Heathrow in the United Kingdom and, most recently, Oslo, Norway,
to serve the country’s thriving market for salmon exports.
In September, AirBridgeCargo took delivery of its ninth new Boeing
747-8 Freighter, taking its total fleet to 16 747Fs. This latest
aircraft was the fifth new 747-8F to join the fleet of Volga-Dnepr
Group since it confirmed an order with Boeing for 20 more 747-8Fs
in July.
Through its hub in Moscow, ABC is able to connect
origin and destination points across its network serving Europe,
Russia, Scandinavia, North America, the Middle East and Asia
Pacific within a 48-hour cargo delivery time, including cargo
handling.
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