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CAPE TOWN & LONDON


80 TONNES OF OIL AND GAS PIPES AND SUBSEA RISERS ARRIVE IN CAPE TOWN


An-124-100 and IL-76TD-90VD freighters from Volga-Dnepr Airlines’ fleet were called into action to deliver more than 80 tons of oil and gas equipment to Cape Town in South Africa.


The An-124 flight carried five 13-metre pipes from Singapore weighing 60 tons. The pipes were shipped to Singapore’s Changi Airport by truck and then placed carefully onto airport dollies and towed to the aircraft for loading. The aircraft’s onboard cranes were used to load the pipes. The delivery was operated on behalf of logistics company UTI South Africa


DOOR-TO-DOOR DELIVERY FOR COUNTER TERROR EXHIBITION


and was contracted under the Ruslan International An-124 joint venture.


Earlier, the urgent transportation of oil equipment from Stavanger, Norway, was organised by Volga-Dnepr’s experts onboard an IL-76TD-90VD cargo aircraft. The shipment of two subsea risers measuring 13.5m and 7.5m in length was required to complete the fast repair of a broken semi-submersible drilling rig. This equipment was delivered on behalf of French broker ATS International.


Volga-Dnepr Group has provided a total logistics solution for a mobile inspection system from Russia on its way to a counter terrorism exhibition in London.


In order to provide the customer with a timely and cost effective delivery for the exhibition equipment from Kaluga in Russia to London and back again, the Volga-Dnepr team managed the shipment using both road transport and scheduled flights.


The logistics chain started in the city of Kaluga, from where the ‘Autoinspection’ mobile system produced by the Russian company Algont commenced its journey to Moscow by road. On its arrival at Sheremetyevo Airport, the equipment was loaded onboard a Boeing 747 aircraft of AirBridgeCargo Airlines, part of Volga-Dnepr Group, bound for Frankfurt. In Germany, Volga-Dnepr completed the necessary customs clearance procedures and organised the final leg of the transportation by road to London, where the 2014 Counter Terror


“The fast delivery of the risers to Cape Town helped the oil and gas operation to resume production at the rig within a short timescale. We have a lot of expertise in meeting such urgent customer requests. In situations of extreme urgency when each day of interruption to production can result in substantial financial losses, we are always ready to provide customers with fast and effective solutions to support them in keeping their projects on track,” said Clair Gunn, Commercial Executive at Volga-Dnepr.


Expo was taking place.


In London, the Volga-Dnepr team took the Group’s ‘cargo supermarket’ service offering a step further by helping its customer host a presentation for the Trade Delegation of the Russian Federation in the United Kingdom.


Vladimir Dvoryaninov, Sales Executive at Volga-Dnepr Airlines, said: “We are always ready to discuss any individual requirements our customers have in order to produce the best offer, whether it’s using charter and scheduled deliveries of any type of cargo onboard our fleet of An-124-100, IL-76TD-90VD, Boeing 747 or Boeing 737 freighter aircraft, road transport or the expertise of our global network of offices and partners accumulated over the last 23 years of our services.”


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