AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC), the scheduled cargo subsidiary of Volga- Dnepr Group and Russia’s largest international cargo carrier, has added one more Boeing 747-400ER Freighter to its current fleet. The new aircraft takes to four the total number of extended range Boeing 747-400s in the ABC fleet. It also operates one Boeing 747-300 and two B747-200 cargo aircraft.

The additional aircraft will enable ABC to follow its strategy of fleet and network expansion with further development and improvement of hub operations at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo international airport, the carrier said. In the first 10 months of 2009, ABC transported 124,835 tonnes of cargo, a 14 per cent increase over the same period of 2008.