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Maersk establishes the airline Maersk Air Cargo
Star Air's activities will converge
April 8, 2022
Initially Maersk Air Cargo will operate a fleet of five aircraft consisting of two new B777F and three B767-300 in Leasing. In addition, three will also be used on the US-China routes. new B767-300 operated by an operator who is not part of the group Danish. The new aircraft will be placed in service between the second semester of this year, when Maersk Air Cargo will become fully operational, and 2024.
Maersk has announced that its goal is to transport with Maersk Air Cargo about a third of its own shipments made annually by air, and this will be made with both owned and rented aircraft.
Illustrating this strategy, Aymeric Chandavoine, head Logistics and Services of the Danish group, highlighted that "the air freight transport is a crucial factor in global supply chains in terms of flexibility and readiness, as - he explained - it allows our customers to cope the challenges posed by the need to reduce the time of transport of high-value goods to solve critical issues of supply chains. Therefore, for Maersk, it is it is also essential to increase our presence in the global sector of air freight transport by introducing Maersk Air Cargo for to meet the needs of our customers even better».
Recall that the Maersk group had significantly reduced its presence in the air transport sector in 2005, when had sold the airline Maersk Air which had been active since 1969 and had scaled back the services of the Star Air company ( of 30 June 2005).
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Initially Maersk Air Cargo will operate a fleet of five aircraft consisting of two new B777F and three B767-300 in Leasing. In addition, three will also be used on the US-China routes. new B767-300 operated by an operator who is not part of the group Danish. The new aircraft will be placed in service between the second semester of this year, when Maersk Air Cargo will become fully operational, and 2024.
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