Varig LogÃstica
Varig Logistica SA, short VarigLog, was a Brazilian cargo airline based in São Paulo.
History
In 1993, VARIG VARIG start under the name CARGO an air freight company. Even before the collapse of the VARIG VarigLog was founded by Ruben Berta Foundation as an independent company within the Varig Group in October 2000. VarigLog initially started its activities with over a thousand employees and a fleet consisting of four freighters of B727 - 100F and four B727 -200F and three DC-10- 30F. The company had a worldwide network of sales and distribution centers to hubs in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Manaus, Porto Alegre, Frankfurt, Miami and New York.
In 2005 the company received its first MD -11F, the first cargo model of its kind in South America.
2006: Beginning of the financial crisis of VARIG, which meant that on 20 July 2006, the Brazilian consortium Volo do Brasil at auction to a debt- free part of the VARIG - VRG Linhas Aéreas the - earned $ 48.2 million for. VarigLog subsequently received new investment and a Boeing 757- 200F. VRG Linhas Aéreas In 2007 was sold to the Brazilian budget airline Gol Linhas Aéreas the name of VRG disappeared.
The financial investor MatlinPatterson Global Advisors in 2009 over control of VarigLog to the Synergy Group of Germán Efromovich.
In February 2012, the airline placed an operation.
Fleet
Recently the fleet of VarigLog consisted of two cargo aircraft:
- 2 McDonnell Douglas MD -11F