Cargolux Airlines added a new direct service from Hong Kong to Columbus, Ohio.
Rickenbacker International Airport in Columbus is the latest airport in the network to be served by Cargolux’s new 747-8 freighters. Cargolux will operate two weekly flights on the route.
Forwarding company Hellmann Worldwide and the Columbus Regional Airport Authority helped Cargolux establish the flight.
The Columbus Regional Airport Authority and its three airports, as well as select businesses located at Rickenbacker Inland Port, accounted for US$6.6 billion in total annual economic output in 2012.
Columbus is one of the world’s major fashion and apparel markets and home to a number of large international fashion companies. The direct Cargolux flight from Hong Kong offers shippers of fashion goods and other commodities fast and convenient connections from Asia to this market.
Rickenbacker handled 22,755 tonnes of cargo in the first four months of 2013.
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