AirBridgeCargo Airlines (АВС) has delivered over 200 museum exhibits onboard its regular Boeing 747-8F flights from Moscow to Hong Kong.

The freighter operator collaborated with ART-Сourier and carried the exhibits, which were packaged inside wooden climate-controlled crates equipped with shock sensors, on its Boeing 747-8 freighter aircraft.

The goods, which originated from the Moscow Kremlin Museums’ collection, will be exhibited at the ‘Tsar of All Russia. Holiness and Splendour of Power’ event taking place in Hong Kong from May until August this year.

“The exhibition guests will be able to delve into the times of Ivan the Terrible and his successors surrounded by museum exhibits dating back to the 16th and 18th centuries which rarely leave the Russian museum collections,” AirBridgeCargo said in a statement.

Nikolay Glushnev, general director of AirBridgeCargo Airlines said the carrier's “gained experience and expertise, competence in the transportation of art pieces, aligned relations with reliable partners, such as ART-Courier is, enable us to deliver valuable cargo worldwide – from artwork to jewellery and beyond.”

AirBridgeCargo noted that successful delivery of artworks relies on proper packaging solutions.

"For such a long flight as Moscow-Hong Kong is the choice has been made in favour of wooden climate-controlled crates which meet the museums’ requirements for safe transportation and are produced from non-toxical and acid-free materials without possible negative effects on the art pieces," it said.

Additionally, the crates were equipped with shock sensors to guarantee cargo integrity and intactness during the flight.