trade route
Germany or one of the nearby EU consumermarkets. Anothermain operator that has increased its capacity
continuously during the past five or six years on routes between Germany and China is Russia-based freighter airline AirBridgeCargo, the line-haul subsidiary of charter operator Volga-Dnepr Airlines. Currently the carrier offers 14main-deck B747 freighter flights every week at Frankfurt, all of themstopping over atMoscow before continuing to Shanghai, Beijing or Hong Kong. At themoment ABC deploys seven B747 freighters –
four B747-400Fs, two B747-200Fs and one B747-300F. An additional B747-400F, acquired fromAir France Cargo is scheduled to enter the fleet, saidWolfgangMeier a former Panalpinamanager and since June 2009 head of sales at AirBridgeCargo. Then the Frankfurt frequencies will be increased from14 to 19 services a week. He further told Air Logistcs China that his airline is evaluating flying to Leipzig/Halle or Cologne Bonn in addition to its Frankfurt-Main schedules. At the same time, a new product range will be introduced for different items such as valuables, perishables, pharmaceutical and express shipments, he noted. “We are still elaborating the details but the basic decision has beenmade,”Meier stated. By doing so ABC is convinced it can do better in terms of yield, since up to now every package flown by the carrier
has been booked as general cargo and consequently at comparably low prices. Meanwhile Russian rival Aeroflot Cargo, despite its
latest period of financial turbulence, keeps on serving Germany’s Frankfurt-Hahn airport as its central European hub. There, the carrier offers local agents eight weekly departures to Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai with intermediate stops atMoscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, Almaty in Kazakhstan or at its Siberian hub in Khabarovsk. Aeroflot deploysMD-11Fs on all its intercontinental roundtrips fromHahn to China and back.
FRANKFURT NEWCOMER Hong Kong and Shanghai are also themain destinations out of Europe for Frankfurt-Hahn-based newcomer ACG Air Cargo Germany. The German-licensed freight carrier that first took to the air in July 2009 operates two leased B747-400SF (Special Freighter) aircraft – the passenger- to-freighter conversion version of the 112-tonne payload aircraft. Asmanaging directorMichael Bock confirmed, ACG was able to close the year in 2009 with a profit mainly “because we are very lean and cost-cautious, have partnered with a number of agents by signing capacity agreements and conduct our flights as amix of charter and line-haul services”.
A new customer for the freighter
operator is Chinese forwarder LinkGlobal, which started booking the ACG freighters earlier this year for the transportation of goods fromChina to Schwerin-Parchim airport in north-east Germany. The first flight was conducted on 5 March, withmore services planned to follow, LinkGlobal said. Furthermore, China Southern
Bock: “lean and cost-cautious”
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connects Shanghaiwith Parchim twice aweek by B747F or B777F and Abu Dhabi-based Etihad
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