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Dec 05, 2012 (newstodate): Russia's Novosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport has now added the Chinese cargo carrier Yangtze River Express to its list of on-line airlines.
The Chinese airline operates three weekly Boeing 747-400F rotations on the trans-polar route Shanghai-Tianjin-Prague-Luxembourg-Shanghai, and is now adding a technical landing at Novosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport with plans for increasing to six weekly rotations from 2013.
With two runways, the airport first launched business with cargo airlines in 2011 with Air Cargo Germany, ULS Airlines Cargo and Cargolux among its first airline customers.
Other cargo airlines now operating at the airport include Aeroflot, AirBridgeCargo, Polet Airlines, Volga-Dnepr Airlines, and Air China Cargo.
The airport's cargo terminal has a capacity of handling 50,000 tonnes per year, and the company expects to handle over 27,000 tonnes of cargo in 2012, an increase by 28 percent, y-o-y.
In 2013, volumes are budgeted to increase to exceed 34,000 tonnes, going up to 40,000 tonnes in 2014.
The Chinese airline operates three weekly Boeing 747-400F rotations on the trans-polar route Shanghai-Tianjin-Prague-Luxembourg-Shanghai, and is now adding a technical landing at Novosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport with plans for increasing to six weekly rotations from 2013.
With two runways, the airport first launched business with cargo airlines in 2011 with Air Cargo Germany, ULS Airlines Cargo and Cargolux among its first airline customers.
Other cargo airlines now operating at the airport include Aeroflot, AirBridgeCargo, Polet Airlines, Volga-Dnepr Airlines, and Air China Cargo.
The airport's cargo terminal has a capacity of handling 50,000 tonnes per year, and the company expects to handle over 27,000 tonnes of cargo in 2012, an increase by 28 percent, y-o-y.
In 2013, volumes are budgeted to increase to exceed 34,000 tonnes, going up to 40,000 tonnes in 2014.