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Sheremetyevo airport cargo volume grows 40pc from January-September
RUSSIA's largest airport for both cargo and passenger traffic, Moscow Sheremetyevo, handled 200,000 tonnes of cargo in the first nine months of the year, representing a year-on-year increase of 40 per cent.
Airport officials attributed the surge in air freight volumes to a significant increase in cargo on international airlines, reported London's Air Cargo News.
According to data for September, the largest increase was in transfer cargo via Sheremetyevo, up by 100 per cent over September 2016, while international airline imports rose by 51 per cent.
The main destinations, accounting for half of total freight traffic, were China, Germany, the US, the Netherlands, France, Italy and Israel, along with India, South Korea, Thailand and the UK.
The main domestic cargo flows were with Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, and Yekaterinburg.
Airport officials attributed the surge in air freight volumes to a significant increase in cargo on international airlines, reported London's Air Cargo News.
According to data for September, the largest increase was in transfer cargo via Sheremetyevo, up by 100 per cent over September 2016, while international airline imports rose by 51 per cent.
The main destinations, accounting for half of total freight traffic, were China, Germany, the US, the Netherlands, France, Italy and Israel, along with India, South Korea, Thailand and the UK.
The main domestic cargo flows were with Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, and Yekaterinburg.
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