Chengdu - Africa's first all-cargo air route opened

On the afternoon of August 31, the "winsky= Addis Ababa all-cargo route inaugural flight ceremony and the signing ceremony of Freight development Cooperation Agreement" was held. It marks the opening of the first all-cargo air route between Chengdu and Africa, which not only opens up the air cargo channel from Chengdu to Africa, but also extends the target market to South America.

Open up the African route

The new route will be encrypted to two flights per week in the future

The first all-cargo route between Chengdu and Africa is operated by Ethiopian Airlines. The first flight took off from Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital, on the afternoon of August 31, bound for Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport, and will take off from Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport the next morning to return to Addis Ababa.

In addition to the much-anticipated maiden flight, Ethiopian Airlines and Shuangliu International Airport also signed a cargo development cooperation agreement. According to the agreement, the "Chengdu = Addis Ababa" full cargo route will be encrypted to three classes per week in the future, operated by Boeing B777F freighter, the route mainly exports a variety of cross-border e-commerce products, intelligent electronic products, and the return cargo is mainly aircraft accessories.

After the "hand in hand", the two sides intend to carry out in-depth cooperation in promoting the construction of cargo aviation hub at Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport, supporting the development of Ethiopian Airlines' cargo route network, accelerating the strategic layout of "Chengdu - Addis Ababa" dual hub ", and building a cargo route network covering the world.

Unimpeded BRICS cooperation

African Airlines engine sent to double stream maintenance

It is worth noting that on the first voyage from Addis Ababa to Chengdu Shuangliu, an aircraft engine of African Airlines was transported to Sichuan International Aero Engine Maintenance Co., Ltd. in Shuangliu Comprehensive protection Zone for maintenance.

"Now that Ethiopia has joined the BRICS cooperation mechanism and the good news of BRICS economic and trade cooperation continues, Ethiopian Airlines will continue to build an air bridge for BRICS economic and trade cooperation, promote more people-to-people exchanges, and promote high-quality BRICS to achieve common development." Samuel Girma, general manager of transport and sales of Ethiopian Airlines Southwest Region, said at the scene that taking advantage of the east wind of BRICS cooperation, it will promote the smooth flow of supply chains, industrial chains and economic and trade export channels of BRICS countries.

With the expansion of BRICS members, enterprises with keen business tentacles have taken the lead in laying out. The African Airlines engine took the first cargo flight to Shuangliu for maintenance, which fully confirms that Chengdu has aviation maintenance, aviation operation and aviation commercial capabilities, and Chengdu has achieved obvious results in building an aviation and aerospace industry ecosystem.

In addition, yesterday afternoon, after the conclusion of the "Chengdu = Addis Ababa cargo route inaugural flight ceremony and freight development cooperation Agreement signing ceremony", the "Chengdu - America Air cargo Corridor media exchange and freight market promotion Conference" was held. At the site of the promotion meeting, Ethiopian Airlines, China Eastern Logistics, Sichuan Cargo Airlines, Aipax and other air cargo market players have expressed optimism about the Chengdu market.

"The newly opened Chengdu-Sao Paulo cargo route is operating well, and specialty agricultural products from Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico and other Latin American countries are entering the Chinese market, which has attracted high attention and expectations from Latin American countries." At the promotion meeting, Zhang Yechu, deputy director of the Foreign Affairs Office of Sichuan Province, said.