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AIR CARGO

MSC Air Cargo launches

inaugural flight from

Milan to Hong Kong

Embraer forecasts over 600 freighters
SC Air Cargo announced the launch of
under 20-tonne payload by 2043 Mits first commercial flight from Milan

Malpensa Airport to Hong Kong International
mbraer forecasts the delivery of the driving forces incentivising the air Airport. The Malpensa-Hong Kong-Malpensa
Eover 600 new freighters under freight industry. It says that the sudden route will be operated twice a week. The
20-tonne payload by 2043 in its 20-Year influx of capacity, combined with the occasion expands MSC Air Cargo’s network
Market Outlook, expanding the fleet return of commercial aircraft belly and capabilities with the delivery of its fifth
from 400 freighters in 2024 to 630 by space post-pandemic and the volatile MSC-branded aircraft, the Boeing 777-200
2043. With projected GDP growth of demand due to geopolitical trade freighter (I-MSCA), operated by AlisCargo
2.5%, cargo traffic is seen increasing tensions, led to overcapacity in the Airlines. The addition of the aircraft completes
by 3.6% annually from 2024 to 2043. cargo market beginning in the second a fleet of five Boeing 777-200 freighters for
For Embraer, e-commerce is one of half of 2022. MSC Air Cargo.

One Air to double freighter fleet by end of 2025

ritish cargo airline One Air connected
B28 global airports in its first year of
operations, carrying over 17,000 tonnes
of cargo and is now preparing to embark
on the next phase of its fleet expansion
with a third Boeing 747-400F entering
service by the end of August. One Air
operated its inaugural flight on July 24,
2023, carrying a 100-tonne payload from
Jinan-Shandong in eastern China to
London Heathrow. One Air’s first year of
operations saw the addition of a second
B747-400F to its fleet in November to
support growing demand for cargo
capacity ex-China and Hong Kong to
Europe, and its decision to make East
Midlands Airport a regular origin and
destination point in the U.K.

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