Cargo To Africa

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  • A New Cargo Terminal Soon to Open in Kenya

    Cargo Exchange of dry and perishable goods will be made efficient through this new entry

    Africa mainly relies on sea cargo transfer for its imports and exports to take place. Building its air freight capacity will help in more international trade through air which will help in attracting more and more clients. This will also help to build strong air cargo services.

    This news is like a fresh air for the air cargo industry in Africa, which will give a separate portion for the perishable and dry goods in newly build sections. Another plus point is that the exporters and importers will be able to do the exchange of these goods knowing that their goods are safe and will reach in desired condition.

    The location:

    The terminal is set to open at Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta International airport in Nairobi, East Africa. The opening of the terminal is due in September 2018 which will provide the capacity of 80,000 tons, its upgrade to 150,000 tons is already planned.

    The project is being handled by Germany’s Acunis, a joint venture between Unitechnik and Amova. This will be their second project as currently they are building the Africa’s largest cargo terminal for Ethiopian Airlines in Addis Ababa Airport.

    What will change after the completion?

    This terminal will help in the faster exchange of perishable and dry goods in the future. The export of such products will become easy and quick and above all reliable. These goods may involve fruits, vegetables, other edibles and spices.

    It will be a trade opener for Kenya with modern facilities as temperature controlled environment for the goods with limited shelf life, a warehouse which will accommodate the dry goods as well and make the whole process more efficient and according to the need of the day.

    Challenges Faced in Planning:

    The Acunis spokesman said that the major challenge they faced was to adjust all the areas in one place which was available for the task. The warehouse, custom clearance and break rooms are in a compact space. They are going to choose the option of dividing the whole area in two sections that is one for dry goods and the other for perishable ones.

    These storages are kept the same in case of layout the only difference is that the perishable goods section is regulated with temperature controlled environment by keeping it down to 2 degree centigrade. Each storage area is loaded with high-bay store, a Euro pallet store, a small parts warehouse and a section for bulky goods.

    What more help is being provided:

    A work of this nature reaches its completion with ease if proper machinery is employed in the project. The Acunis is also providing the conveying and handling systems for the completion of the interior of the structure. These machineries include roller conveyers and industrial trucks, work stations as well as loading and unloading bridges for trucks. This will surely boost Cargo to Africa.

    After all the hard work being put in the project it will prove to be fruitful in the future and make way for the advancement in the air cargo services in the African region. This will also prove a job opener for many citizens who are in search of a decent living.

  • A New Cargo to India Route from Africa as A Fifth Gateway

    Largest African cargo Airline has headed towards India to deliver express cargo to Ahmedabad

    Finally, the largest African cargo carrier, Ethiopian Airlines, is pleased to declare that they are going to India as their new destination for cargo and the addition of Ahmedabad airport is a new route for sending cargo to India, and it will be a fifth new gateway to its international cargo network on the 28th of March, 2017.

    Ahmedabad is one of the ancient Indian city of Muslim Emperor’s times and it is also proud to be India’s second oldest and hoariest stock exchange across India. Ahmedabad is the largest cotton producer in India, while it is an emerging industrial hub in the country and putting its maximum share into the economy of India, dwelling a population of six million people or even more.

    What Ethiopian Airlines says?

    The CEO of the freight at Ethiopian airlines, Mr. Tewolde GebreMariam, is well informed about the cargo operations of the airline in India and says that the Ethiopian air cargo services to India were first started in the early 90’s. It was the time when the airline was operating from India and launching their first cargo station in Mumbai.

    Perfecting the booming economic associates of the clan between India and the African continent at weighty, Ethiopian airline have made liable cargo services available to Chennai, Bangalore, Delhi and now to Ahmedabad.

    According to the CEO of the largest African cargo handler airline, this route will be the fifth Cargo Gateway to India. Even as operating within the principal trade lanes between Africa, Europe, Far East and Asia.

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    The CEO further stated that the cargo community is fruitfully linking the Indian sub-continent and Africa further with China and Hong Kong. The Ethiopian Airline is delivering the Indian market with minimal weekly import cargo of 240 lots per week.

    What CEO feels about the Indian Market?

    The CEO of the Ethiopian airlines feels that their new services to Ahmedabad will additionally beef up the existing trade and commercial ties between the two quickest growing regions of the world, India and Ethiopia.

    The Airline will become the medium of linking both friend countries through its services and this relationship will be further enhanced in the future when the airline will increase its destinations in the country.

    What is the reality of Ethiopian airline in Africa?

    Ethiopian airline is the largest airline in the African continent and it is the largest cargo network operator as well and one of the vital most international cargo players as well. The airline is serving 36 international locations and delivering cargo to them with a typical everyday uplift of 650 on the top of the belly,

    maintain potential of a hundred and fifty tons to more than 90 locations globally, deploying a full and powerful fleet of its all the 8 dedicated freighters together with six state of the art Boeing B777-200LRF and a couple of – Boeing B757-260F freighter aircraft for global operations.

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  • Ethiopian Airlines Opening new Destinations to Expand Air Cargo

    Positive plans to increase the cargo capacity in Africa by adding 98 cities and the best air crafts

    A rapidly growing airline in Africa, Ethiopian Airlines, has made up the plans to increase the cargo capacity to the African trade lanes with the launch of services to seven new destinations. This air cargo booster plan is aimed to start in the first five months of this year and will play important role to increase Cargo to Africa.

    New Places to be opened by African Airlines

    A hubbed airline, announced that they are planning to open new areas between January and June. The areas which they are going to add to increase air cargo are Victoria Falls (Zimbabwe), Antananarivo (Madagascar), Conakry (Guinea), Osla (Norway), Chengdu (China), Jakarta (Indonesia) and Singapore.

    New Cities with The Best Aircraft

    Ethiopian Airlines is very eager to take lead to promote the air cargo industry in Africa, and their move to open the new destinies is a clear sign that they are doing well.

    They are aiming to offer their services to 120 international destinations by 2025. With these new additions, it is also going to offer the flights to 98 cities with the best fleet of Boeing 777, Airbus A350, B787 and Bombardier Q-400 Aircraft.    

    What Ethiopian Airlines Chief Executive Said?

    The Chief Executive of Ethiopian Airlines, Tewolde GebreMariam said, “Africa’s share of Global Aviation is the smallest which is only around 3%. As the largest Airline group in the continent, we are highly concerned on the low base of air connectivity in the continent.”

    He further added, “Looking beyond the current economic slowdown especially in the oil export dependent economies of Africa, we firmly believe that the continent will become the magnet for foreign direct investments, trade and tourism, which are the engines of air travel growth and in turn efficient air connectivity also drives socio-economic development and we are happy to contribute our share in 21st Century African Transformations.”

    IATA Statistics to Show Cargo Load Factor

    In the last November, the statistics of IATA showed that the cargo load factors declined year on year for the 19th consecutive months to reach 25.3%, the lowest level of any region which is nominated by the airlines organizations.

    However, the efforts of the continent’s largest airline group are up to the mark and these will surely put the air cargo industry to the next levels.

  • How Airlines Becoming Humanitarian to Save More Lives

    More than 50 Airlines serving the lifesaving program with humanitarian efforts and 1.4 million kilograms of presents for the needy humans

    It is for the first time when a manufacturer asking to do something great through its Humanitarian cargo Flight application, Boeing has laboured with 50 airline buyers to deliver around 1.4 million kilo grams of presents. 26 of those flights had been on Ethiopian airlines fleet. So it is clearly mentioned that the majority of presents will be cargo to Africa through the new humanitarian regime. Airways, which have been creating wealth hand over fist as power bills decline and passenger traffic rises, are making use of some of that bounty towards humanitarian functions.

    Where these presents coming from?

    It is all about the air cargo industry that helps to offset a $15 billion funding gap in world disaster remedy by means of air cargo supplies to needy international locations. A contemporary United countries document located that even as a minimum $40 billion in humanitarian aid is needed annually to aid victims of common failures and armed conflicts worldwide, the arena spends most effective $25 billion on yearly bases on securing and preserving the available food as well as getting more food, water, refuge, medical supplies including lifesaving medicines cargo deliveries and different emergency resources to far flung regions.

    Any similar efforts in the past

    It is not for the first time when any company has done that for the needy international destinations. On the bases of that 2008 trend, when airlines such as Emirates, JetBlue, South African Airways, Thai Airways and Vietnam airways have worked with Airbus on as a minimum 30 delivery flights. Those flights have brought greater than 250 tons of humanitarian remedy to areas of Nepal, Colombia, Thailand, Haiti and Africa as well. The airlines certainly have their work reduce out for them. A tumultuous international family airlines and the manufacturer, the Boeing is giving a start to new mess ups essentially, and the charges related to rushing humanitarian comfort to the place it’s going to do the most good are high. For that reason, a sort of alliances between airlines, plane manufacturers and nongovernmental corporations have stepped into the void.

    By way of its foundation arm, Airbus, one of the largest aircraft manufacturers on the globe, has been satisfying with the new empty plane in Germany and France with humanitarian alleviation presents destined for catastrophe-hit areas. It is not being done by the manufacturer for the first time but they have previously done it for more than 15 occasions, Airbus has also used its experiment planes to give further presents rapidly in the aftermath of disasters.

    What airbus thinks about helping the humanity?

    The flights are going down anyway and the payments for the pilots and the fuel are already been released in advance so, it is confirm that the planes will complete their tour to Africa, Airbus spokeswoman Deborah Waddon was talking to the media. Nongovernmental companies prepare for the cargo to Africa and its far away areas, we make donations for the fee of the cargo, the loading is mainly executed for free and the airlines duvet simply an incremental gas fee for the additional cargo. These flights have helped grow to be lives with their priceless cargo. Bill McSherry, Boeing’s vice chairman of presidency operations said on a media report.

    Recent flights to Devastating areas

    In 2015, a scan plane loaded with 50 humanitarian staff and about 22 tons of food and scientific aid flew to Nepal after its devastating earthquake. In the meantime, a Nepal airways plane supply flight was once used to transport more than five fully loaded cargo planes with plenty of relief goods and medical apparatus to Kathmandu. That sort of effort does no longer go left out, or unappreciated.

    Transporting relief supplies is one in every of our foremost expenditures, so this manner we are able to support extra people and more affected areas in the world, said Olaug Bergseth, a senior officer for company partnerships with the international Federation of RED Cross and RED Crescent Societies, one of the crucial Non-Governmental Organisations that works carefully with Airbus. It can be faster, it’s extra effective and it is cheaper. It also help the donators to identify more needy people and areas.

    What is Boeing about to do?

    By means of its humanitarian supply flight application, Boeing additionally works with non-profit NGOs to load the whole thing from scientific supplies such as remote laboratories and medical supplies and clothing to academic materials into empty cargo space in new airplanes. These flights then transport and give supplies to areas of want. Manufacturing facility-recent planes being delivered to patrons are most often filled with items and presents destined for disaster-hit areas. For the reason that 1992, Boeing’s application has made one hundred eighty humanitarian delivery flights, working with greater than 50 airline purchasers to give greater than 1.4 million kilograms of presents.

    Where the major part of relief will be delivered?

    At least 26 of those humanitarian cargo delivery flights were on Ethiopian airlines which has additionally helped its neighbouring African countries like Somalia, through bringing back needed supplies. These flights have helped change into lives with their worthy cargo, stated invoice McSherry, vice chairman of government operations at Boeing business Airplanes. Delivery flights and cargo freighters don’t constantly get relief supplies exactly where they must go. Thus, Boeing regularly groups up with Air link, a Washington, D.C., non-profit disaster alleviation group that works with dozens of airways and NGOs, to transport provides and relief staff.

    Airlink in the Ebola Disaster

    For the period of the Ebola challenge in West Africa, Airlink despatched wellness-care workers and one hundred shipments of help for 37 extraordinary NGOs utilizing eleven airways. Extra not too long ago, Airlink used donated miles and cash from Air Canada, Alaska airways and United Airlines to ship 19 army veterans from crew Rubicon America and workforce Rubicon Canada to castle McMurray in Alberta. These excursions helped residents return dwelling after devastating wildfires destroyed more than 2,400 properties.

    The Airlink executive director said that they focus quite a bit on disaster response. The organization also pay attention to what you would name gradual-burn hobbies, corresponding to an education software in Africa that is instructing kids to not play with land mines and different remnants of struggle.

  • Ethiopian Airlines: A Real Success Story Of A State Owned Enterprise

    South African Airways (SAA) are in a very terrible situation said an internal memorandum on the 6th of November 2015,

    It was made public last month that the SAA is technically insolvent and thus mortified of careless and irresponsible trading.  It is also legally obliged under the Companies Act to file for the liquidation of the company. But after the investigation of the SAA failure, it is confirmed that the quality of management was responsible, not the state ownership.

    Ethiopian Airlines, largest African airline

    Ethiopian Airline is the fastest growing and largest profitable airline in Africa. The airline has grown at an average rate of around 20 to 25 percent every year.The profits for the fiscal year 2014/15 were amounted to $175 million, which was more than the profits of entire African airlines combined.

    Ethiopian Airlines network

    Ethiopian airlines is the most networked African airline because both in terms of schedule routes within the Africa as well as the international destinations. It serves almost 91 destinations internationally, where, 52 destinations in Africa, 15 destinations in Europe and America, however 24 destinations are in Asian countries from Gulf to Tokyo.

    It has a youngest and the largest cargo fleet in Africa. It has 68 passenger planes and makes more than 230 departures daily, it is an average of the previous five years.

    Cargo and freight within Africa

    The airline has around 1.2 million tonne annual capacity of cargo and freight and it has its major cargo terminal in Addis Ababa, airline hub. This hub is a massive setup and slightly smaller than London Heathrow Airport, which is the 4th largest in Europe.

    Ethiopian airline currently covers 48 cargo destinations where the largest  portion comes from Europe and Asia. The major part of cargo to Africa handled by the airline ad it has eight dedicated cargo carriers, however, by 2025, airline has a target to increase the fleet to 18 cargo carriers.

    The success factor

    The major success factor of the airline is strategically capturing of entire African market and the establishment of a multi hub system on the continent. The strategy and alliance president of the airline commented that Africa is a massive continent and it was not sufficient to control the continent with one hub.

    Thus, the airline bought the failing ASKy airline and Air Malawi and used them as a part of the multi system hub.