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Joint effort moves urgent valve from Italy to Middle East

Ukraine-owned heavylift carrier, Antonov Airlines and broker AirPartner delivered an urgently needed valve for an oil refinery from Italy to Middle East. The airline’s own engineers built a low-profile cargo ramp to load and unload the 20-tonne, three metre high cargo, in combination with external cranes. Commercial executive, Eugene Kiva explained: "Despite the cargo was not something oversized or heavy, as usual for our aircraft, this particular unit required using our special ... [+]