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IL-76TD-90VD FLEET SEES OIL AND GAS DELIVERIES DOUBLE IN FIRST SIX MONTHS OF 2014
Volga-Dnepr’s Engineering & Logistics Centre (ELC) developed a special loading frame that provided a timely and cost effi cient solution for a customer moving a 30-ton oil and gas shipment onboard its IL-76TD-90VD from Johor Bahru, Malaysia, to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia.
The oil and gas shipment consisted of fi ve pieces, including 13-metre pipes weighing 18 tons. Normally, loading such cargo would require the use of six tons of special loading equipment but at the time of the customer enquiry for the fl ight, Volga-Dnepr already had an aircraft positioned in the Asia Pacifi c region so the ELC team set about creating a solution that prevented the additional time and cost of moving the specialist loading equipment from Europe.
Azat Yakupov, Senior Load Planning
Engineer, Dangerous Cargo at Volga- Dnepr Airlines, said: “We created a solution by developing a compact 600kg frame that enabled the pipes to be loaded using the aircraft’s roller tracks. Together with my ELC colleagues we prepared the necessary drawings and contracted a company in Johor Bahru to manufacture the frame for us. This enabled us to load the shipment safely at Johor Bahru Senai International Airport using the IL-76TD-90VD’s onboard crane as well as an external crane and lifting equipment without any delay to the planned fl ight schedule.”
Volga-Dnepr says air charter sales of IL-76TD-90VD fl ights carrying oil and gas equipment doubled in the fi rst half of 2014 to 32% of all fl ights operated by the aircraft compared to the opening six months of last year. Volga-Dnepr Airlines
has a fl eet of fi ve new generation IL- 76TD-90VD aircraft, which are approved by ICAO for global operations.
“The customer for this particular oil and gas cargo delivery was our longstanding partner, Panalpina. The modernised IL- 76TD-90VD has developed an excellent reputation in the international air cargo market and especially in the oil and gas industry and this is refl ected in the doubling of our business in this market segment in the fi rst six months of 2014,” added Georgy Sokolov, Regional Sales Manager of Volga-Dnepr.
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