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Transportation 29<br />
Boeing projects $2.1<br />
trillion market for new<br />
commercial airplanes<br />
Emirates SkyCargo<br />
inducts first A310 Freighter<br />
Boeing sees a $2.1 trillion market for new commercial<br />
airplanes during the next 20 years. Market demands will<br />
more than double the world's commercial airplane fleet by<br />
2024 and accommodate a forecasted 4.8% annual increase<br />
in passenger traffic growth, according to just released<br />
Boeing’s 2005 Current Market Outlook report<br />
The report projects a need for approximately 25,700 new<br />
commercial airplanes (passenger and freighter) during the<br />
next 20 years, more than 80% of which will be in the singleaisle<br />
and mid-size twin-aisle categories. In terms of<br />
delivery dollars, the largest market is projected to be the<br />
Asia-Pacific region, with 36% of the $2.1 trillion total.<br />
Emirates SkyCargo has taken delivery of the first of its<br />
three Airbus A310-300Fs from EADS EFW, at the latter's<br />
facility in Dresden, Germany.<br />
The wide-bodied A310-300F, with the Emirates SkyCargo<br />
logo emblazoned on its body, has a gross payload of 39<br />
tonnes. Equipped with state-of-the-art technology, the<br />
aircraft offers excellent performance capabilities. The<br />
aircraft also has Auxiliary Centre Tanks to increase its<br />
range, enabling one-stop operations from Dubai to the U.S.<br />
and countries in the South Pacific.<br />
The two A310-300Fs on order will enter Emirates' fleet by<br />
the end of the year.<br />
Etihad Crystal Cargo<br />
beefs up feeder service<br />
Bahrain receives world’s<br />
second largest cargo plane<br />
The world's second largest cargo aircraft the Antonov 124<br />
(AN124) landed at the Bahrain International Airport from<br />
Houston (U.S) to deliver urgent oilfield equipment - a<br />
drilling rig derrick for the Saudi drilling contractor Pool<br />
Arabia Limited.<br />
Carring the combined cargo weight of around 92,000 kg,<br />
the charter of this heavy weight transport aircraft was<br />
arranged by Panalpina.<br />
Etihad Crystal Cargo has enhanced its feeder services in<br />
the Middle East with the introduction of new roller-bed<br />
trucks..<br />
Manufactured in Germany, the roller-bed trucks,<br />
provided and operated in cooperation with Micco Logistics<br />
on scheduled services linking Abu Dhabi to Sharjah, Dubai<br />
and Jebel Ali, will provide an improved trucking<br />
infrastructure to and from Abu Dhabi international airport.<br />
The trucks have been fitted with the global positioning<br />
system to make cargo tracking easier and more efficient.<br />
In 2004, the first full year of operation, Etihad Crystal<br />
Cargo moved almost 20,000 tonnes of cargo. The cargo<br />
volume target for 2005 is more than 100,000 tonnes.<br />
Supply Chain & Logistics Group | www.sclgme.org
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