News&People Emirates: rising South American traffic


SINGAPORE AIRLINES Cargo will add new destinations through a deal with low-cost carrier Scoot to manage the air cargo capacity of the locally-based airline. Scoot is expect- ing to deploy B777-200 aircraft – offering 10 tonnes of capacity – on a daily connection between Singapore and Sydney and on a five times a week service linking Singapore and the Gold Coast in Australia from June this year.


QUEEN ALIA International airport in Jordan achieved “mod- est” growth of 4.5 percent in its cargo volumes during the first quarter of this year, processing 21,603 tonnes of air freight.


AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURER Boeing has delivered the 4,000th Next-Generation B737, to Guangzhou-headquar- tered China Southern Airlines.


EMIRATES SkyCargo has transported 25,000 tonnes of freight over the past year on what it describes as the “bur- geoning” trade lanes linking South America with the rest of its global network. Earlier this year the cargo


division of the Dubai-based Emirates Airline strengthened its operations to the continent (ACW, 9 January, p2) through the launch of B777-300ER flights connecting Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro with its home hub – the only non- stop service between Rio and the Middle East. At the same time, Emirates also increased the frequency


of its São Paulo full-freighter operation. This all-cargo service was


boosted in September last year by the addition of a third weekly operation, a move which increased the weekly capacity on the Viracopos- Campinas route by 33 percent to 620 tonnes. Ram Menen, Emirates


divisional senior vice president cargo, comments: “Our expanded services in the region have not only boosted trade levels in the UAE, but also with South America’s main Far East business part- ners, such as China, Hong Kong and Japan, and a multi-


tude of European countries.” As well as the Rio - Buenos


Aires passenger operation and its freighter flights to Viraco- pos, Emirates SkyCargo also offers the bellyhold capacity of


a daily B777-300ER service to São Paulo Guarulhos Interna- tional airport. Emirates Airline initially


started flying services to South America in 2007.


Arrivals & Departures


■ HUSSEIN DABBAS has resigned as president and CEO of Royal Jordanian Air- lines. He will leave his post on 31 May, after almost three years as head of the carrier.


■ Founder and CEO of logis- tics company Aramex FADI GHANDOUR (pictured) is to retire by the end of this year. His chief lieutenant and cur- rent head of the Middle East and Amin region, HUSSEIN HADEN, will take on that role while Ghandour will remain vice chairman of the compa- ny’s board of directors.


■ UK-based broker Charter- sphere has appointed NACHO CARRATEROas cargo charter


■ RALF GRESHAKE has taken up the position of route development manager for Turkey at Germany’s Hell- mann Worldwide Logistics.


■ S CHANDRASHEKHAT has applied for voluntary retirement from his post as chief operating officer of Air India Express.


broker. He took up his posi- tion earlier this month (April).


■ DAMIAN BISHOP has been named group director business development at Aus- tralia’s Toll Logistics.


■ Ceva Logistics has named IZASKUN BARQUIN busi- ness development director in Spain and Portugal.


■ MIKE CARRIVICK is to retire at the end of October as chief executive of the Board of Airline Representatives in the UK (BAR UK).


CHEP Aerospace boosts ULD capability in Copenhagen


WORLDWIDE ULD (unit load device) fleet management services provider CHEP Aerospace Solutions has acquired a ULD repair facility in Copenhagen from the con- tainer manufacturer Nordisk Aviation Products. Located at the Danish cap-


ital’s international airport, the site can repair up to 12,000 ULDs a year, CHEP says. James Everett, CHEP


Aerospace Solutions director, global maintenance and repair, said: “Our move into Copenhagen complements our extensive network of ULD


and galley cart repair stations. “In addition to serving


SAS, one of our key clients, the site also provides a great opportunity for other airlines to save fuel costs in shipping damaged containers, pallets or galley carts by having them repaired here in Denmark.”


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