A "Emirates Air Cargo" aircraft landed in the Brazilian airport of Sao Paulo, carrying 500,000 "Covid-19" inspection kits. This cargo has been transported from the Chinese city of Guangzhou via Dubai, and another similar shipment will follow to the same destination. The airline operated two charter flights that transported about 200 tons of health supplies, such as hand sanitizers, masks and gloves, from Hong Kong to Sydney, while another flight carried medical supplies to Karachi.
One of the Emirates Boeing 777F air cargo planes on a private charter flight transported about 100 tons of relief materials, including hospital equipment, to Milan. More than 55 tons of heat sensitive drugs were also transported from Mumbai to New York. Also in April, the airline will operate nine charter flights to Budapest to deliver supplies, such as face masks and medical equipment, to Hungary.
The company said in a statement that in addition to transporting vital medical supplies around the world, the Emirates Air Cargo also plays a pivotal role in transporting foodstuffs to the UAE, Gulf countries and the Middle East in general. During the last week of March, it operated special flights from Pakistan and India to supply more than 150 tons of fast-food products to Dubai. Private cargo flights also transport fast-food items from Cairo and Nairobi to Dubai and other countries in the region.
Emirates Air Cargo, which operates in a rapidly changing global environment, must adapt and re-arrange its operations and its network of lines to ensure its continuing to facilitate the transport of basic commodities, in addition to supporting economies and helping companies around the world to continue its work by maintaining the continuity and smoothness of supply chains Globalism.
Nabil Sultan, Senior Vice President of the Emirates Air Cargo Department, said, "We affirm in these difficult times our commitment to serve as a global conveyor belt for the transportation of urgently needed products, such as food and medicine, as well as equipment, machinery and other components that are vital for the continuation of basic industries. Thanks to our flexibility and our focus on customer service, we have been able in a short period of time to create a new network and schedule of shipments, using the energy provided by the cargo hold on the Boeing 777 wide-body passenger aircraft, which enhances the capacity available on our cargo planes. "