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Aug 08, 2016 (newstodate): Ever-booming e-trade is driving Chinese airline to increase freighter fleets.
Shanghai YTO Express, China's third largest express-delivery company by cargo aircraft number, will introduce at least three wide-body freighters to its fleet in 2018 to handle international delivery operations, according to a report in China Daily.
The freighters will support the company's overseas parcel delivery service, cross-border e-commerce business and temperature-controlled supply-chain delivery services.
With a staff of more than 260,000 employees, 32,000 vehicles and 82 transit centers in more than 100 Chinese cities, YTO Express is the third Chinese express shipping company to have its own cargo aircraft, along with China Post's EMS and SF Express.
The Hangzhou-based YTO Cargo Airlines Co, one of its subsidiaries, ordered 20 Boeing 737-800 converted freighters in February, and it already owns five freighters operating charter flights and it will grow the fleet of own freighters to eight by the end of this year.
Earlier in 2016, YTO Express opened branches in South Korea, Japan and Russia and Zimbabwe and plans to set up a total of 18 regional branches with warehouse and transit centers in priority markets such as Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates by the end of the year.
SF Airlines is also a launch customer for cargo conversion of the Boeing 737-800 aircraft, with firm orders for 30 737-800BCF in addition to options for another 25 aircraft.
The airline plans to grow its fleet to over 100 aircraft by 2020 and plans also to build China's first cargo-dedicated airport with construction of the new facility to start already before the end of this year at a yet undisclosed locality.
In 2015, SF Airlines signed a LoI with the Estonian postal company Omnia to bring Chinese e-commerce goods into Tallinn Airport for onward distribution.
Shanghai YTO Express, China's third largest express-delivery company by cargo aircraft number, will introduce at least three wide-body freighters to its fleet in 2018 to handle international delivery operations, according to a report in China Daily.
The freighters will support the company's overseas parcel delivery service, cross-border e-commerce business and temperature-controlled supply-chain delivery services.
With a staff of more than 260,000 employees, 32,000 vehicles and 82 transit centers in more than 100 Chinese cities, YTO Express is the third Chinese express shipping company to have its own cargo aircraft, along with China Post's EMS and SF Express.
The Hangzhou-based YTO Cargo Airlines Co, one of its subsidiaries, ordered 20 Boeing 737-800 converted freighters in February, and it already owns five freighters operating charter flights and it will grow the fleet of own freighters to eight by the end of this year.
Earlier in 2016, YTO Express opened branches in South Korea, Japan and Russia and Zimbabwe and plans to set up a total of 18 regional branches with warehouse and transit centers in priority markets such as Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates by the end of the year.
SF Airlines is also a launch customer for cargo conversion of the Boeing 737-800 aircraft, with firm orders for 30 737-800BCF in addition to options for another 25 aircraft.
The airline plans to grow its fleet to over 100 aircraft by 2020 and plans also to build China's first cargo-dedicated airport with construction of the new facility to start already before the end of this year at a yet undisclosed locality.
In 2015, SF Airlines signed a LoI with the Estonian postal company Omnia to bring Chinese e-commerce goods into Tallinn Airport for onward distribution.