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28 марта 2017

Russian Post Opened Regular Flights from China to Novosibirsk

Russian Post opened regular flights on its own medium-haul aircraft TU-204C from Zhengzhou (Xinzheng airport) and Harbin to Novosibirsk, with a flight frequency of 2-3 times a week.

The opening of regular mail flights from China is due to significant growth of mailings from Chinese Internet shops in recent years. Last year alone the volume of parcels and small packets from China amounted to more than 30,000 tons. To ensure fast and smooth delivery of the growing cargo traffic Russian Post purchased two medium-haul aircraft TU-204C in 2016.

In the first month of operation the number of hours for the two aircraft amounted to 229. Moscow, St. Petersburg, Norilsk, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Anadyr, Pevek, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Yakutsk as well as Harbin and Xinzheng became the main destinations for the transportation of mail and cargo.

The opening of new regular mail and cargo flights from China to Novosibirsk plays a major role, reinforces the importance of the city and the region as a postal logistics centre and is an important project for the development of Tolmachevo airport.

The opening of new regular mail and cargo flights from China to Novosibirsk plays a major role, reinforces the importance of the city and the region as a postal logistics centre and is an important project for the development of Tolmachevo airport.

Russian Post is a federal postal operator, it is on the list of Russian enterprises of strategic importance. It includes 42 thousand offices throughout the country and comprises one of the largest labour collectives – about 350,000 postal officials. Russian Post annually receives more than 2.5 billion letters (1 billion of such letters are from government authorities) and handles some 296 million parcels. Russian Post serves about 20 million subscribers in Russia, to whom 1 million copies of printed publications are delivered every year. The annual volume of transactions that are conducted through Russian Post amounts to 3.5 million (pensions, payments and transfers).

NOVOSIBIRSK International Airport (Tolmachevo) is the largest air hub in Russia east of the Urals on major transit routes between Europe and Asia. The capacity of domestic terminal makes up to 1,800 passengers per hour, while the international terminal capacity – up to 1300 passengers per hour. The airport has two runways of ICAO I and II Categories. In 2016 passenger traffic of the airport exceeded the mark of 4 million passengers.