Etihad Cargo, Etihad Airways’ cargo and logistics arm has expanded its US community and ought to give increased means to the position by introducing a contemporary service to Boston, Massachusetts.
The provider’s inaugural flight arrived on 31 March, atmosphere out the conventional service that can search data from the airline impartial four flights per week to Boston. Boston is Etihad Cargo’s fourth US vacation region, and the contemporary route reinforces Etihad Cargo’s dedication to providing tailored cargo solutions to the North American position.
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The contemporary service will most possible be operated on a cutting-edge Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, providing a additional cargo technique of fifty tonnes per week, catering to the tough query for freight between Boston and Abu Dhabi. Etihad Cargo will provide tailored solutions for the numerous vary of commodities prevalent within the Boston position, focusing on perishables, clinical devices, prescribed tablets, and airplane ingredients.
Boston is recognised globally as a crucial hub for food, prescribed tablets, and cutting-edge analysis and vogue. Etihad Cargo’s growth into this market is poised to seriously enhance the waft of perishables similar to lobsters and seafood, as nicely as crucial prescribed tablets, including clinical devices and oncology treatments, from Boston to Abu Dhabi and the leisure of the area.
The originate of the Boston route marks the most modern addition to Etihad Cargo’s comprehensive US community, which accommodates double every day flights to Novel York’s JFK airport, every day services to Chicago O’Hare (ORD) and Washington, DC (IAD), and a weekly freighter service to Chicago. This growth brings the total alternative of flights Etihad Cargo operates to the US to 33 per week. It demonstrates the airline’s ongoing efforts to enhance world connectivity and presents a elevate to commerce all over its community.
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Stanislas Brun, Vice President of Cargo at Etihad Cargo, acknowledged: “The introduction of the Boston route is a strategic growth of Etihad Cargo’s US community, providing more belly means to partners and customers. Boston is a foremost vacation region for food and prescribed tablets and a centre for innovation and vogue. Etihad Cargo’s Abu Dhabi-Boston service will give a elevate to the position’s export economic system, in particular in facilitating the area distribution of its world-class seafood and step forward clinical products, and additional beef up commerce ties between the US and UAE.”
Additional enhancing the provider’s capabilities within the US, Etihad Cargo expanded its community with Worldwide Flight Products and services (WFS), a member of the SATS Neighborhood, to include the total provider’s stations within the US. This partnership has elevated Etihad Cargo’s top class offerings and enabled the airline to bring constant, excessive-quality, stop-to-stop air cargo solutions by device of its CEIV-licensed products, including PharmaLife, designed for the stable transport of prescribed tablets; FreshForward, which ensures the freshness of perishable items; and specialised services tackle LiveAnimals and SkyStables, dedicated to the stable and humane transport of are living animals.
