S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 This Tuesday (10th) in S\u00e3o Paulo, Emirates SkyCargo, the cargo division of the Dubai-based airline, announced that it transported a record-breaking 25,000 tonnes in its Southern American operations in 2011. The company flies to three different destinations in Brazil and to Buenos Aires, in Argentina. The airline aims to increase the volume in coming years and make the Viracopos airport, located in Campinas, in the interior of the state of S\u00e3o Paulo, into its \u201cmini-hub\u201d in the region.<\/p>\n
The senior vice president for cargo at Emirates SkyCargo, Ram Menen, told ANBA that Brazil has proved to be a destination \u201copportunities\u201d for the company. He is in S\u00e3o Paulo to attend logistics fair Intermodal.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur freighters are making three trips a week to Brazil. We also begun flying to Rio, so the overall statistics for Brazil will grow,\u201d said Menen. \u201cWe started operating here in 2006. Since then, air trade between Brazil and the United Arab Emirates has grown by 371%,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Viracopos is Emirates Sky Cargo\u2019s main cargo platform in South America. After taking off from Campinas, the aircraft makes stops in Dakar, Senegal, and in Frankfurt, Germany. The company also uses the Emirates Airline passenger jets, which fly the S\u00e3o Paulo\u2013Dubai and Buenos Aires\u2013Rio de Janeiro\u2013Dubai routes on a daily basis. The freighter transport capacity is 103 tonnes. The passenger aircraft carry roughly 20 tonnes in their luggage compartments.<\/p>\n
Menen claims that the company\u2019s target is to carry more cargo in 2012 than it did in 2011, but he does not disclose the growth rate expected for this year, because the segment depends on trade between Brazil and the Arab countries, which is on the rise. <\/p>\n
According to the company\u2019s cargo manager for South America, Dener Souza, the goal right now is to have Viracopos become a \u201cmini-hub.\u201d Out of the 25,000 tonnes carried in 2011, 4,000 were shipped from S\u00e3o Paulo. The remainder was shipped from Viracopos.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want Viracopos to be a \u2018mini-hub.\u2019 We can work with Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, a few South American countries. We can ship their products to other countries. We can grow in this way,\u201d said Souza. He estimates that out of the total shipped by the company last year, 90% originated from Brazil and the remainder, from Argentina and Chile.<\/p>\n
Menen stated that the company\u2019s strategy is to grow in Brazil via the destinations it already operates in. He said Viracopos should be the shipping point for products made in other regions of Brazil to be sent to the Arab world, Africa and Europe.<\/p>\n
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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