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Cathay Pacific closes strong in 2012
Cathay Pacific Airways combined
Cathay Pacific and Dragonair (a wholly
owned subsidiary of the Hong Kong’s flag
carrier) traffic figures for December 2012
show an increase for both passenger
numbers and cargo and mail tonnage
compared to corresponding figures
December 2011.
The two airlines carried 146,897 tonnes
of cargo and mail last month, an increase
of 3.4 per cent compared to December
2011. The cargo and mail load factor fell
by 0.4 percentage points to 67.4 per cent.
Capacity, measured in available cargo/
mail tonne kilometres, rose by one per
cent while cargo and mail revenue tonne
kilometres rose by 0.4 per cent. For the
whole of 2012, tonnage declined by 5.3
per cent while capacity dropped by 3.1
per cent.
Cathay Pacific General Manager Cargo
Sales & Marketing James Woodrow said:
“December was the fourth month in a
row that we saw year-on-year growth in
tonnage. The cargo market had been in the
doldrums since April 2011, so it was good
to see the year 2012 ending on a stronger
note. However, the cargo and mail tonnage
carried in 2012 was still some way behind
the 2010 total. We operated close to a full
freighter schedule in December and added
one more new destination to our freighter
network, Colombo in Sri Lanka.”
Cathay’s Hong Kong
terminal to commence
operations in February 2013
Cathay Pacific Services, the designer,
builder and operator of the new USD
$ 761.12 million Cathay Pacific Cargo
Terminal at Hong Kong’s Chek Lap Kok
International Airport, has announced that
the terminal will start operations from 21
February 2013. Capable of handling 2.6
million tonnes of throughput per year, the
terminal will be opened in three stages.
In Stage One, valuable cargo, transit civil
mail and interface transfer transhipments
for Cathay and Dragonair will be handled;
Stage Two in the summer of 2013 will see
transhipments, import cargo and empty
unit load device (ULD) release while in
Stage Three in the latter half of this year,
the terminal will become fully operational.
HACTL achieves high
tonnage growth
Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited
(HACTL) has reported the second best
year in the company’s 37-year history. Q4
in 2012 saw total traffic up 6.2 per cent
on 2011, at 754226 tonnes the best total
tonnage and best annual growth in any
quarter since the first quarter of 2011.
The fourth quarter also saw high export
figures: November’s 142,632 tonnes was
the best in 2012, while December’s was
the third best.
The year saw the second best results in
the air cargo hub’s history: 2,777,519
tonnes up 2.1 per cent on 2011, and just
4.2 per cent short of the company’s alltime
record of 2,899,603 tonnes set in the
post-recession bounce of 2010.
44 February 2013