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Jun 29, 2007 (newstodate): Air cargo to and beyond Dushanbe, Tajikistan, has now found a steady new venue.
The Central Asia Flight support and Coordination Center, a JV between Samarkand Airways and its main shareholder, the US company Universal Mobility Solutions, has launched a regular charter flight operation on the route between Tashkent and Dushanbe, operating a Samarkand Airways Antonov-26 aircraft.
-The first flight was successfully performed on the June 19, delivering an urgent and temperature sensitive vaccine shipment in excellent condition and on time, says Sergey Bryukhovetskiy, Samarkand Airways Head of airfreight department.
-Till now there was no scheduled cargo service between Tashkent and Dushanbe, and it has always been difficult lift air cargo into Dushanbe, and as only direct charter services were available, the transportation costs were prohobitive.
-Using Tashkent, the nearest transfer point, with its extensive connections to the world has changed the situation entirely. And as the AN26 based in Dushanbe airport is fully under the operational control of Universal Mobility Solutions, urgent ad-hoc flights to Afghanistan and other destinations in Central Asia can now be arranged within the shortest time, he says.
The Central Asia Flight support and Coordination Center, a JV between Samarkand Airways and its main shareholder, the US company Universal Mobility Solutions, has launched a regular charter flight operation on the route between Tashkent and Dushanbe, operating a Samarkand Airways Antonov-26 aircraft.
-The first flight was successfully performed on the June 19, delivering an urgent and temperature sensitive vaccine shipment in excellent condition and on time, says Sergey Bryukhovetskiy, Samarkand Airways Head of airfreight department.
-Till now there was no scheduled cargo service between Tashkent and Dushanbe, and it has always been difficult lift air cargo into Dushanbe, and as only direct charter services were available, the transportation costs were prohobitive.
-Using Tashkent, the nearest transfer point, with its extensive connections to the world has changed the situation entirely. And as the AN26 based in Dushanbe airport is fully under the operational control of Universal Mobility Solutions, urgent ad-hoc flights to Afghanistan and other destinations in Central Asia can now be arranged within the shortest time, he says.