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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.
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.
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 ocean shipping crisis has bolstered the business case for air cargo and companies are willing to pay up to avoid port congestion.
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.
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]
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]
One of the original Star Air Fokker F27 Friendships A Star Air Boeing 727-100 powered by Rolls-Royce RB.183 Tay engines, operated for UPS in 2001 Star Air Boeing 757-200F in 2004 Maersk Air Cargo Boeing 767-200SF in former Star Air livery. The Maersk Group entered the airline industry when it established Maersk Air in 1979. [2]