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AIRBRIDGECARGO CELEBRATES 1,000 FLIGHTS IN A YEAR MILESTONE IN AMSTERDAM AND FRANKFURT


AirBridgeCargo Airlines’ (ABC) growing fleet and network helped it exceed 1,000 Boeing 747 freighter flights at Amsterdam Schiphol and Frankfurt airports for the first time in 2016.


AirBridgeCargo is now the largest all-cargo operator in Amsterdam and the second largest airline overall for tonnage after the national carrier. It is also the second biggest cargo carrier in Frankfurt.


AIRBRIDGECARGO WINS ‘INTERNATIONAL ALL-CARGO CARRIER OF THE YEAR’ AWARD


AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has been voted ‘International All-Cargo Carrier of the Year in Africa’ in the annual STAT Trade Times Awards to recognise excellence in air cargo.


The airline’s success is based on its eight- month season of operations in Africa in 2016 when its twice-weekly Boeing 747 freighter services connected London and


ABC connects customers across the Netherlands and Germany and around the world to its global network in Europe, Scandinavia, North America and Asia via its hub in Moscow, with point-to-point deliveries within 48 hours worldwide. These latest milestones mark another year of development for the airline, which has now achieved 13 consecutive years of tonnage growth. As well as expanding its Boeing 747 freighter fleet to 16 aircraft in 2016 with the arrival of its ninth new Boeing 747-8F, AirBridgeCargo also launched a series of new routes, including Phnom Penh, Seattle, Heathrow and Oslo. More expansion of its scheduled cargo operations is planned in 2017.


Andrey Andreev, Vice President Europe of AirBridgeCargo Airlines, said: “After the national carriers, we are now the largest cargo carrying airline in both Amsterdam and Frankfurt, which makes us proud.


Frankfurt with Libreville, Johannesburg and Nairobi. The flights were operated under an ACMI contract with partner airline, CargoLogicAir.


The Highly Acclaimed award was presented to Georges Biwer, Vice President EMEA at AirBridgeCargo, at a gala awards ceremony in Johannesburg during the 2017 Air Cargo Africa conference and exhibition. The STAT Times Awards are decided over two rounds of online voting by the air cargo industry readers of STAT Trade Times magazine. In the first round, readers are invited to suggest their choice of nominees in order to produce a list of their top five companies. They are then asked to choose the airline they believe has demonstrated the highest


Exceeding 1,000 flights in a year at both airports not only shows our commitment to both countries, it demonstrates the level of support we are gaining from customers. We have operated more Boeing 747 freighter services from AMS and FRA in 2016 because of the level of demand and this growth in our volume is a reflection of our customers’ confidence in our service levels. We wish to thank all of our customers and our local teams at both airports for helping us to reach these significant milestones at two of Europe’s most important cargo gateways. We expect further growth in 2017.”


level of service excellence during the previous 12 months.


Georges Biwer said: “We operated services in Africa for eight months of 2016 and we are certainly monitoring new


opportunities very closely to support our customers in this market. To be successful in Africa you need to have a good knowledge of the market and an awareness of the geopolitical situation and local changes. Most importantly of all, you need close cooperation with local companies. We certainly expect to be able to identify new opportunities in Africa through the feedback we are receiving from customers in the market.”


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