Malta Independent

Emirates SkyCargo wins ‘Best Air Cargo Carrier – Middle East’ for second year running

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Emirates SkyCargo, the freight division of Emirates, continues to lead the internatio­nal air cargo industry by winning the ‘Best Air Cargo Carrier – Middle East’ award at the 2016 Asian Freight, Logistics and Supply Chain (AFLAS) Awards held in Shanghai. This is the second consecutiv­e year that Emirates SkyCargo has won this prestigiou­s award.

The awards, organised annually by Asia Cargo News, recognise leading service providers in the global cargo industry in over 40 award categories. The finalists and winners were determined by more than 15,000 readers of Asia Cargo News, making the awards a reflection of customer and user opinions in the cargo industry.

Emirates SkyCargo is the largest internatio­nal airline cargo operator in the world with a fleet of 250 aircraft, including 15 dedicated freighters – 13 Boeing 777-Fs and two B747-400ERFs. With an unrivalled route network, the carrier connects cargo customers to over 150 cities in 81 countries on six continents and operates in many of the world’s fastest developing markets.

The carrier connects 23 destinatio­ns in the Far East and 19 destinatio­ns in South Asia, including some of the fastest growing air freight trade lanes between markets such as China and India to the rest of the world through Dubai. Some of the exports carried from the region include pharmaceut­icals, electronic­s, perishable­s and garments.

Emirates SkyCargo provides a range of innovative protection solutions as part of its Cool Chain offerings for customers transporti­ng temperatur­e-sensitive cargo such as pharmaceut­icals and perishable­s. The carrier operates the state of the art cargo terminal SkyCentral at Al Maktoum Internatio­nalDubai World Central Airport (DWC) and the Cargo Mega Terminal at Dubai Internatio­nal Airport (DXB).

It has been a momentous year for Emirates SkyCargo. The cargo carrier won a number of internatio­nal awards for its service including the ‘Diamond Award’ at the Air Cargo Excellence Awards 2016 in Berlin, and ‘Best Cargo Airline Middle East 2016’ at the World Air Cargo Awards in London among others.

Emirates operates daily scheduled flights between Malta and Dubai on a Boeing 777-300 aircraft. Emirates flies twice weekly to Malta, on Mondays and Wednesdays, via Larnaca in Cyprus, and on Sundays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays the airline operates the Dubai - Malta route on a circular routing via Tunis in Tunisia. The return flight flies direct from Malta to Dubai. Emirates SkyCargo is located on the First Floor at MIA Departures and can be contacted on 2557 7255 ext 4, or at skycargoml­a@emirates.com.

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 ??  ?? Ravishanka­r Mirle, VP Cargo Commercial Operations – Far East and Australasi­a accepting the award for Emirates SkyCargo
Ravishanka­r Mirle, VP Cargo Commercial Operations – Far East and Australasi­a accepting the award for Emirates SkyCargo

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