According to the statement made by THY Press Consultancy, during the pandemic process, whose effects were felt on a global scale, the global air cargo market was heavily affected and experienced a serious contraction, shrinking by 18 percent between January and May.
Turkish Cargo, on the other hand, did not experience any tonnage loss compared to the same period of the previous year and served as a global bridge to prevent disruption of the international supply chain.
According to international air cargo information provider WACD’s May data, Turkish Cargo increased its market share to 5 percent and carried one in every 20 air cargoes worldwide.
In this process; Turkish Cargo provides service to 90 direct cargo destinations with high tonnage capacity cargo aircraft, as well as wide-body passenger aircraft of the main brand Turkish Airlines; While it organized air cargo operations to more than 60 destinations, including London, Moscow, Oslo, Shanghai, Bangkok, Doha, New York and Casablanca, it used 32 wide-body passenger aircraft in these operations.
Turkish Cargo transported medicine and medical equipment to the whole world.
Created by the International Air Transport Association IATA in order to ensure that global air cargo operations are carried out at a high standard; At the end of the training, evaluation and validation process; Turkish Cargo, which has the “CEIV Pharma” certificate, carried out 21 thousand 547 tons of medicines and nearly 7 thousand tons of medical equipment between February 1 and June 30, and organized more than 1100 flights with cargo and passenger planes in June alone.
Turkish Cargo, which continues to work devotedly 24/7 to ensure that food, aid materials, masks and medical equipment reach the whole world and especially to prevent disruption of the global pharmaceutical supply chain, takes all hygiene measures for its employees in the operation throughout the pandemic process, provides mask disinfectants and maintains social distance. carries out the necessary work and continues these measures.
Source: https://www.aa.com.tr/tr/ekonomi/dunyada-her-20-hava-kargodan-biri-turkish-cargo-ile-tasindi/1903351
