cargo link


Kinnear: “Etihad’s cargo operation is an increasingly important segment of the airline’s business”


opportunity, supplementing the capacity available in the bellyhold space of the Etihad fleet and on our own dedicated freighters,”pointed out Roy Kinnear, vice president


cargo at Etihad Airways and head of Etihad Crystal Cargo. Hewent on:


“Etihad’s cargo operation is an increasingly important


segment of the airline’s business.Our growing passenger fleet offers enormous potential to carry increasing quantities of cargo between AbuDhabi and the rest of the world.” The airline’smost recent introduction to its all-cargo


fleetwas its twice-weekly 60-tonne payload A330-200 freighter service toHong Kong,which it brought in during October last year. At the time of the inaugural Etihad Crystal Cargo freighter flight toHong Kong, Kinnear described the carrier’s fourth dedicated freighter destination in China as“an important strategic addition to our freight network. As one of theworld’s busiest cargo hubs, Hong Kong’s huge growth potential gives us a strengthened product to offer our global key accounts”.


Hong Kong – theworld’s second-busiest air cargo hub Recently, Etihad Airways said itwill boost its services to


the US, Europe and China through newflights and the introduction of largerwidebody equipment – two ’B777- 300ER (Extended Range) aircraft and three A330-300swith a substantial bellyhold capacity – being brought into its fleet this summer. The newadditions to its growing fleetwill allowEtihad


to step up its five times aweek B777-300ER flight to Beijing to a daily service. Later this year, the airlinewill receive its first 103-tonne


capacity B777-200 freighter,whichwill allowit to offer more destinations andmuchmore flexibility in the operation of its cargo network. Etihad CEOJamesHogan believes that 2011will be


“one of themost important years in Etihad’s history aswe add depth and scale to our operation”.


Maximus Air Cargo is able to provide that extra ACMI lift


With a growing fleet of freighter aircraft,AbuDhabi’s MaximusAir Cargo has quickly become a powerful force in theMiddle East air freight business, offering scheduled and charter freighter lift aswell as being available on full- serviceACMI (aircraft, crew,maintenance and insurance) lease terms to cargo-carrying airline customers. By the end of this year –with three newfreighter


aircraft due to join its fleet in July, September and November –Maximuswill be able to offer the capacity of five 48-tonne payloadA300- 600RFs, three 40- tonne capacity


IL-76TDs, two‘all-terrain’LockheedHercules L382Gs capable of operating on unmade runways, plus the heavy- weight and oversize 120-tonne-plus lifting power of anAN-124. MaximusAir Cargo president and CEO


Fathi Buhazza says that the company has acheived a“robust”peformance in recent times despite the global economic uncertainties surrounding the air freight business.With the growing fleet, he believes he can“offer cargo agents and freight forwarders awider choice of cities”as future destinations.


26 AIR LOGISTICSCHINA


Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32