OREANDA-NEWS. September 27, 2010. This summer will stay in memory not only because of the terrible drought but also because of the huge number of fires that have burnt down both forests and entire villages. A lot of people have become homeless. One of the most damaged sites is Verhnyaya Vereya, the village located in Nizhniy Novgorod region. All houses there were burnt down to ashes.

Residents of Norilsk couldn’t remain indifferent to the tragedy of the villagers and gathered them a lot of clothes.

NordStar airline helped to realize this charitable act of Norilsk people and delivered cargo to Moscow by its scheduled flights. While Domodedovo Carco and Domodedovo Airport Handling being a part of Moscow Domodedovo Airport handled 13.111 kg cargo free of charge.

Free of charge handling of charitable cargo is a tradition for Domodedovo Cargo. In July 2010 Moscow Domodedovo Airport provided free handling of charitable cargo: children’s books for orphans living in Chukotka Autonomous Region.

Moscow Domodedovo Airport is the largest airport of Russia. Its market share in total passenger traffic in Moscow makes 46%. At the moment 76 partner airlines (47 foreign including 12 representing the CIS States and 29 Russian) connecting over 233 destinations operate flights all over the world. The unique route network covered by Domodedovo partner airlines provides for 93 exclusive destinations. In 2009 18,7 million passengers benefited from Domodedovo services.

Domodedovo Cargo Corporation is the largest and the most high tech air freight facility in Russia. Domodedovo Cargo being equipped with state-of-the-art technologies provides for handling and storing of all types of cargo including dangerous goods on a 24 hours basis. The Terminal facilities occupying the floor space of 13400 sqm allow for handling of 600 tons of cargo per day which is 10 times more than the average capacity of cargo terminals of the majority of Russian airports while the average daily volume of cargo/mail handled in Domodedovo totals 400 tons.