Twenty years in the past – in April 2004 – a Korean Air Cargo freighter landed in the Austrian capital for the first time. This marked the foundation of a partnership in the cargo and passenger sector that continues to on the second and is also being expanded.
This anniversary was wisely-known yesterday evening, 11 June 2024, at an Austro-Korean gala evening on the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna with Jaedong Eum, Head of Cargo Commerce Division at Korean Air Cargo, Myung Kyu Park, MVP Cargo Sales Division at Korean Air Cargo, Sangwook Ham, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Austria, and Julian Jäger, joint CEO and COO of Vienna Airport, as wisely as over 100 guests from alternate, aviation and tourism.
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“Korean Air Cargo and Vienna Airport are linked by two a long time of honest appropriate cooperation. The partnership shows how Europe and Asia cooperate efficiently. Vienna’s geographical space and extra special infrastructure originate the airport a extraordinarily well-known hub in Korean Air Cargo’s route network. Collectively, we want to amplify our fine quality requirements extra and put apart Vienna as the main European cargo airport. We thank Korean Air Cargo for his or her persisted commitment and dwell awake for a a hit future,” said Julian Jäger, joint CEO and COO of Vienna Airport.
“Right through the past two decades, Vienna Airport has developed into the principle gateway for Korean agencies coming into Eastern Europe and a key hub connecting Asia with Eastern Europe. Our Vienna cargo operation began with a once-a-week carrier and has now grown to larger than one flight a day. This extra special enhance wouldn’t were seemingly with out Vienna Airport’s dedicated and proactive partnership.
We dwell awake for extra strengthening the cooperation between the 2 firms in the long jog,” said Jaedong Eum, Head of the Korean Air Cargo alternate division.
“Given Vienna’s strategic space and connectivity interior Europe, it is becoming that Korean Air Cargo and Vienna Airport appreciate nurtured such a accurate partnership. Korean Air and Vienna Airport appreciate bolstered economic cooperation and of us-to-of us swap between Korea and Austria. I’m hoping this cooperation shall be extra enhanced,“ said Ambassador Sangwook Ham, Embassy of the Republic of Korea.
To extra amplify air cargo traffic between Seoul and Vienna, Korean Air Cargo and Vienna Airport wished to delivery joint advertising and marketing and marketing initiatives centered at forwarders and prospects, among various measures. The firms signed the corresponding settlement designed to amplify their cooperation in February of this 365 days. Within this context, the partners will also swap alternate abilities to produce optimal services.
Austrian-Korean gala evening tournament featuring larger than 120 guests from alternate, aviation and tourism
Within an outlandish evening tournament held yesterday, 11 June 2024, the 20 th anniversary of Korean Air Cargo’s presence at Vienna Airport and the a quantity of years of honest appropriate collaboration was wisely-known with larger than 120 guests from alternate, aviation and tourism. Among the guests were Jaedong Eum, Head of the Cargo Commerce Division at Korean Air Cargo; Myung Kyu Park, MVP of the Cargo Sales Division at Korean Air Cargo; Sangwook Ham, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea in Austria and Julian Jäger, joint CEO and COO of Vienna Airport, as wisely as Dr Sabine Haag, Director of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Dukho Lee, Chairman of the Association of the Korean Community in Vienna and Peter Malanik, President of the Austrian Aviation Association. The moderator, Barbara Fleißner, skillfully guided the viewers through the evening. The Vienna Philharmonic ensured an delectable evening of musical leisure.
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two decades of an air cargo connection between Vienna and Seoul
Korean Air Cargo has been working cargo flights from and to Vienna since 2004, around ten times per week. In doing so, Korean Air Cargo has been deploying various airplane, i.e., the Boeing-747-400F, Boeing 747-8F and Boeing 777F. Which capability, it links manufacturing and gross sales markets in Austria and the total CEE space with larger than 110 global locations through Incheon Airport in Seoul, the principle airport in South Korea. Vienna Airport is a extraordinarily well-known cargo hub in the Korean Air Cargo route network due to its ultimate geographical space and extra special facing infrastructure. In order, the airline leverages Vienna Airport as a transhipment level for automotive manufacturing in Central and Eastern Europe. Equally, digital and pharmaceutical products comprise a important percentage of the cargo tonnage.
