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interview
SPEED & PRIORITY
SERVICES DESIGNED
TO RESPOND TO CUSTOMERS’
EXPECTATIONS
In an interview with The STAT Trade Times, Daniel Lloyd Johnson, Senior
Vice President Cargo Product & Customer Experience at Turkish Airlines,
discusses Turkish Cargo’s three new solutions on offer for shipments.
Manjula Nair
ith a network sprawled across 132 According to Turkish Cargo’s website, “While
countries, Turkish Cargo has been Turkey is getting ready to become a new refer-
around for over eight decades ence point for the world upon opening of the
Wsince its inception in 1933, offering Mega Hub Istanbul Airport, Turkish Cargo's
air cargo services to over 340 destinations. SMARTIST facility will have a closed area of
In a bid to make Istanbul, the logistics centre of the 340,000 m2 and an annual capacity to sort out 4
world by directing a bulk of the global air cargo traffic million tonnes of cargo.”
to Istanbul Airport, Turkish Cargo has set up a mega About ambitions for SMARTIST’s future, Turkish
cargo terminal – SMARTIST – which in Turkish Cargo’s Cargo has this to say, “Our mega facility will also
own words is “among the largest hubs in the world”. highlight the intercontinental location of Istanbul and
Photo: Turkish Cargo
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