Hactl to handle first scheduled flights to Hong Kong for Bismillah Airlines

<p style="text-align: justify;">Dec 05, 2016: Bangladesh based carrier <a title="Bismillah Airlines" href="http://www.bismillahairlines.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Bismillah Airlines</a> has appointed <a title="Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals" href="http://www.hactl.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals</a> (Hactl) to handle its newly-launched twice-weekly B747F services from Dhaka. The flights are the airline’s first scheduled service to Hong Kong.</p> <p style="text-align: […]

Hactl to handle first scheduled flights to Hong Kong for Bismillah Airlines
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Dec 05, 2016: Bangladesh based carrier Bismillah Airlines has appointed Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals (Hactl) to handle its newly-launched twice-weekly B747F services from Dhaka. The flights are the airline’s first scheduled service to Hong Kong.


Hactl will provide a one-stop-shop service including ramp handling, cargo terminal operations, crew transportation and air cargo documentation. The flights will be marketed in Hong Kong by general sales agent Smart-Trans.


Inbound cargo to Hong Kong is likely to include fruit, seafood, marine products, and textile products for which Bangladesh is well known.


The country is also developing its manufacturing industries, and the new scheduled freighter services operated by Bismillah Airlines will provide an important trade link with the entire Asian region, by utilising the widespread network of air cargo destinations accessible via Hactl’s 100+ other airline customers.


Mark Whitehead, chief executive, Hactl, adds, “The Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar (BCIM) Economic Corridor is a component of the Belt and Road initiative, and all additional transport links which are introduced to serve it will benefit from the increasing cooperation between the countries it connects. We congratulate Bismillah Airlines on this major and visionary step in its development.”


Launched in 1998, Bismillah Airlines, part of the Mollah Group of Industries, a well-established industrial and export concern – operates domestic scheduled air services and extensive charter operations to Europe, provides third party line maintenance under its Part 145 Aircraft Maintenance accreditation, and refuelling at Cox’s Bazar domestic airport. It is also self handling at Dhaka Airport where it has a major operation.


Photo: (left to right) Airport Authority Hong Kong Airport & Industry Collaboration Manager, Abbey Wong; Smart-Trans Logistics Chairman, Ken Cheng; Hactl Chief Executive, Mark Whitehead; Consul General of The People’s Republic of Bangladesh, Mohammad Sarwar Mahmood; Bismillah Airlines Representative for China, Hong Kong and Macau, Monju Ahmed; Hactl Executive Director, Vivien Lau; and Invest Hong Kong Manager of Transport and Industrial, Jannet Lam.

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