China Cargo Airlines will launch regular service to Singapore Changi Airport with 12 weekly flights beginning Oct. 9.
The Shanghai-based joint venture between China Eastern Airlines and China Ocean Shipping is the third cargo carrier and the fifth airline to commence operations to the airport this year, following Malaysia’s Transmile Air and Indonesia’s Tri-MG Airlines.
The airline will operate 777-200F and MD-11F aircraft, linking Singapore with Bangkok and Shanghai Pudong. The flights will operate every day but Mondays.
China Cargo’s operations bring the number of freighters at Changi to 16. It will increase the number of all-cargo flights between Singapore and China to about 90 per week.
Air cargo traffic at Changi for the first eight months of 2010 increased 15 percent compared with last year to 1.19 million metric tons. In the same period, cargo volume between Singapore and China grew 25 percent. China is one of Singapore’s top three markets for cargo.
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