AIRBRIDGECARGO Airlines (ABC), a scheduled air freight carrier and subsidiary of Russia's Volga-Dnepr Group, has announced the addition of a Boeing 747-400ER Freighter to its fleet. The new aircraft takes to four the total number of extended range Boeing 747-400s in the ABC fleet. The carrier also operates one Boeing 747-300 and two B747-200 cargo aircraft. The new aircraft is intended to enable ABC to expand its network and to improve hub operations at Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport, as well as help improve customer services. Tatyana Arslanova, ABC's executive senior vice president, Strategy, Marketing and Sales, said: "The fact we have taken this additional airplane reflects ABC's commitment to its consistent strategy which includes unification and modernisation of its fleet, development of our route network and building of long-term relationships with our customers. "The continued realization of our plan has enabled AirBridgeCargo to achieve growth and increase the company's performance, even in such challenging economic circumstances as the industry has experienced in 2009." During the first 10 months of the year ABC transported 124,835 tonnes of cargo, a 14 per cent increase over the same period in 2008.