Volga-Dnepr delivers 45 tons of humanitarian cargo to Nepal

Volga-Dnepr has delivered 45 tons of humanitarian cargo on behalf of the Norwegian Red Cross to help earthquake victims in Nepal.
A Rapid Deployment Emergency Hospital with surgical capacity and 60 beds was transported from Oslo to Kathmandu over two flights in the first week of May using Volga-Dnepr’s IL-76TD-90VD freighter aircraft.
Volga-Dnepr expects to operate further relief flights to Nepal, which suffered a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake at the end of April.

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