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AUG 05, 2003 (newstodate): KLM Cargo is seeing good business on its services between Amsterdam and Almaty, Kazakhstan.
-We currently operate five times weekly with Boeing 767 passenger aircraft, and twice weekly with Boeing 747-400ERF freighters, says Jacques Leijssenaar, KLM Cargo regional manager for South and Eastern Europe.
-The brish cargo business is of course driven by the oil exploration and production in the region, but the oil also drives a lot of side effects contributing to sound cargo business, including stationing of people, household removals, valuables and money transfers, he says.
KLM Cargo's Amsterdam-Osaka freighter also performs a weekly technical stop at Baku enabling KLM Cargo to use capacity on the Amsterdam-Baku leg, while the company has no rights to take cargo from Osaka to Baku.
-Not really a problem, says Mr Leijssenaar. Volumes are so extensive out of Osaka that we can easily fill up the aircraft directly from Japan.
During the coming winter program, from October, KLM will reduce capacity on its passenger service from currently five to four weekly flights, while the freighter capacity will be kept unchanged.
-We currently operate five times weekly with Boeing 767 passenger aircraft, and twice weekly with Boeing 747-400ERF freighters, says Jacques Leijssenaar, KLM Cargo regional manager for South and Eastern Europe.
-The brish cargo business is of course driven by the oil exploration and production in the region, but the oil also drives a lot of side effects contributing to sound cargo business, including stationing of people, household removals, valuables and money transfers, he says.
KLM Cargo's Amsterdam-Osaka freighter also performs a weekly technical stop at Baku enabling KLM Cargo to use capacity on the Amsterdam-Baku leg, while the company has no rights to take cargo from Osaka to Baku.
-Not really a problem, says Mr Leijssenaar. Volumes are so extensive out of Osaka that we can easily fill up the aircraft directly from Japan.
During the coming winter program, from October, KLM will reduce capacity on its passenger service from currently five to four weekly flights, while the freighter capacity will be kept unchanged.