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When Dubai Cargo gateway was built in 1991, it was designed to handle 150,000 tonnes of cargo per year. The 300,000-square-metre complex was built at a cost of $75 million (about Dh 275.5 million) to accommodate air and sea freight growth and facilitate transshipment operations between the Indian sub-continent, South East Asia, the Far East and Europe.
Emirates SkyCargo (Arabic: الإمارات للشحن الجوي) is a cargo airline based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. [1] As of 2020, it is the fourth largest cargo airline worldwide in terms of the total freight tonne-kilometres flown and international freight tonne-kilometres flown.
Air freight rates rose as a consequence, from $0.80 per kg for transatlantic cargoes to $2.50-4 per kg, enticing passenger airlines to operate cargo-only flights through the use of preighters, while cargo airlines bring back into service fuel-guzzling stored aircraft, helped by falling oil prices. [3]
The ocean shipping crisis has bolstered the business case for air cargo and companies are willing to pay up to avoid port congestion.
During the first phase of the project, the airport was planned to handle around 200,000 t (200,000 long tons; 220,000 short tons) of cargo per year, with the possibility of increasing to 800,000 t (790,000 long tons; 880,000 short tons). [12] The passenger terminal at this phase was designed to have a capacity of 5 million passengers per year. [13]
The world's thirty busiest airports by cargo traffic for various periods (data provided by Airports Council International). Numbers listed refer to loaded and unloaded freight in metric tonnes , including transit freight.
The new facilities will be named Al Maktoum Airport Cargo Gateway and Al Maktoum International Airport. The initial phase, it is expected to handle 700,000 tonnes of cargo per year and by the scheduled 2013 completion it is expected to become the largest of its kind in the world, handling more than 12 million tonnes of cargo annually. [needs ...
DHL International is the central platform for DHL Air Network Operations in the Middle East. It is wholly owned by Deutsche Post [2] and operates the group's DHL-branded parcel and express services in the Middle East and North Africa [3] as part of DHL Aviation. Its main base is Bahrain International Airport. [4]