Air China Cargo Lands at DFW

Posted 31/08/2011

Air China Cargo has begun serving Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport after inaugurating a three times weekly freight link from Shanghai Pu Dong on August 26.  The service is routing via Anchorage on its inbound flight and via Chicago O’Hare and Anchorage on its return to Asia. 

“We are extremely pleased to open new avenues of trade from Texas to China,” said Jeff Fegan, Chief Executive Officer, DFW International Airport.  “China continues to be a tremendously important market for DFW, and this new Air China Cargo service certainly provides an excellent opportunity for regional businesses to ship goods quickly.”

The new flights continue DFW’s impressive growth in its cargo business over the past decade, as Asian freighter business in particular, up eleven per cent since 2000, has driven growth.  China is actually DFW’s largest air cargo trading partner, with over 133,000 metric tonnes of air cargo shipped last year. Almost half of DFW’s imports from China consist of communications equipment (cellular phones, televisions, radios and components), while the wider Dallas-Fort Worth region exports numerous commodity groups including high technology and oil and gas exploration equipment to China.

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