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Nov 29, 2016 (newstodate): Chinese e-commerce firms mean business with Europe, setting new standards for logistics.
As one example, the Italian Milan-based carrier SW Italia is now operating the first regular freighter operations to Europe for any Chinese express carrier on a route from Hong Kong to Prague, in the Czech Republic, for Sto Express, one of the major Chinese express operators.
The operation via Baku is performed with a Boeing 747-400F - the first freighter in the fleet of the carrier that performed its first flight in January 2015, and the company is part-owned by Silk Way West Airlines in Baku, Azerbaijan.
In the meantime, Estonia is seeing the Russian carrier Aviastar-TU from November 22, 2016, performing a series of twice-weekly rotations on the route from Changchun, in China's Jilin Province, to Tallinn with an en-route stop at Kemerovo International Airport bringing Chinese e-shipments to Estonia's Post11 for onward distribution to other European and Baltic markets.
Lithuania is still struggling to realize plans for a scheduled freighter service from Tianjin, China, to Kaunas Airport carrying Chinese e-commodities to Europe, and also in the Baltic region Latvia's Riga Airport has similar plans for a new infrastructure to attract Chinese e-trade from Alibaba and other providers into the European pipeline.
As one example, the Italian Milan-based carrier SW Italia is now operating the first regular freighter operations to Europe for any Chinese express carrier on a route from Hong Kong to Prague, in the Czech Republic, for Sto Express, one of the major Chinese express operators.
The operation via Baku is performed with a Boeing 747-400F - the first freighter in the fleet of the carrier that performed its first flight in January 2015, and the company is part-owned by Silk Way West Airlines in Baku, Azerbaijan.
In the meantime, Estonia is seeing the Russian carrier Aviastar-TU from November 22, 2016, performing a series of twice-weekly rotations on the route from Changchun, in China's Jilin Province, to Tallinn with an en-route stop at Kemerovo International Airport bringing Chinese e-shipments to Estonia's Post11 for onward distribution to other European and Baltic markets.
Lithuania is still struggling to realize plans for a scheduled freighter service from Tianjin, China, to Kaunas Airport carrying Chinese e-commodities to Europe, and also in the Baltic region Latvia's Riga Airport has similar plans for a new infrastructure to attract Chinese e-trade from Alibaba and other providers into the European pipeline.