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Emirates SkyCargo is celebrating a decade of twin airport operations, made that you will doubtless be in a assign to imagine by the airline’s sturdy trucking swiftly and bonded corridor. With 77 kilometres between Dubai World Central (DWC) and Dubai World Airport (DXB), Emirates SkyCargo established the bonded trucking corridor, to seamlessly integrate the airports and offer customers a five-hour air-to-air transfer carrier.

Constituted of over 60 autos and working 24/7, the swiftly is a rolling conveyor between the devoted freighter operations at DWC and bellyhold operations at DXB. Since Could well 2014, Emirates SkyCargo autos dangle transferred extra than 2.16 million tonnes of cargo between the airports in 640,000+ journeys, facilitating replace to over 150 locations on the airline’s large world community.

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Robert Fordree, Senior Vice President of Cargo Operations Worldwide at Emirates SkyCargo, acknowledged: “Organising a legitimate and effective trucking carrier has been needed to the success of our twin airport hub, enabling us to transfer our customers’ shipments without compromise. Over the rest decade, we dangle reinforced the carrier, offering one in every of primarily the most competitive air-to-air transfer times of 5 hours, coupled with fit-for-cause solutions to preserve goods flowing fast and reliably all the intention in which by intention of the world. We can proceed to form our multi-modal offering and integrate Dubai’s world-class infrastructure into our operations, strengthening the metropolis’s assign as a number one logistics hub.”

Providing customers extra alternative and suppleness with their global shipping, Emirates SkyCargo’s truck swiftly entails flatbeds, temperature-managed refrigerated objects, dry box roller beds and reefers to provide fit-for-cause consideration for goods in transit. Maintained and operated by Allied Transport Company, the swiftly has travelled over 62 million miles within the rest decade, which is the identical distance of 81 journeys to the moon and abet.

As successfully as to shuttling cargo between the 2 airports, Emirates SkyCargo launched a avenue feeder carrier, extending connectivity for regional airports by intention of land. Since 2020, the airline has viewed principal transit traffic from GCC markets, such as in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, for outsized and heavy cargo, alongside side machinery, engines, automotive and oil field tools, amongst others.

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Located within the centre of the world, with advantageous air, land, and sea connectivity, Dubai is a most principal replace gateway that serves as a bridge between the East and the West. Constructing on this, Emirates SkyCargo’s hub is the world’s finest and most technologically superior cargo handling facility, offering a 185,000m2 devoted cargo rental and a capacity of 2.3 million tonnes each year all the intention in which by intention of each operations. Guided by Dubai’s Financial Agenda, D33, which defines the metropolis’s imaginative and prescient of turning right into a prominent economic hub, Emirates SkyCargo works to make stronger replace flows and generate new, reciprocal business opportunities that attend toughen world economies.

Caitlin DiMare-Oliver