The Swiss shipowning group Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) announced today that it has started developing MSC Air Cargo, a new airline in the cargo sector that the group Swiss intends to establish - explained MSC - as "new Solution to respond to customer requests and a service complementary to the offer of freight transport by containers'. Together with the German Lufthansa, in recent months MSC had proposed itself for the acquisition of the Italian airline Ita Airways in competes with the consortium formed by Certares, Delta and Air France-KLM, the latter chosen by the Ministry of Economy and Finance, sole shareholder of Ita Airways, to start a more Detailed.

Communicating the decision to have your own company air, the Swiss group has specified that MSC Air Cargo is in development phase for several months and will be operational from the beginning of 2023 after delivery of the first of four Boeing aircraft MSC branded 777-200Fs to be operated by Atlas Air, a company of Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc.

In addition, MSC announced the appointment of Jannie Davel, who has already held positions in Delta Cargo, Emirates SkyCargo and DHL, with the objective of developing air cargo activities and build the team that will take care of it.

"We are pleased - said the CEO of MSC, Soren Toft - to announce the development of MSC Air Cargo and welcome Jannie Davel to lead this new and exciting reality that will be available to everyone MSC customers. This is our debut in this market and We plan to continue exploring all avenues possible to develop the air cargo sector and thus integrate our core business in container freight transport».