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Aug 23, 2016 (newstodate): Lithuania's leading logistics company Hoptrans is now deep into the process of launching a series of new freighter flights between China and Kaunas Airport.
According to sources in the industry, and now confirmed also by Hoptrans, the company plans to start a twice-weekly freighter services from September 2016 between Tianjin Binhai International Airport and Kaunas Airport, operated with a Boeing 747-300F aircraft on Belarus registration.
-We have already performed a number of test flights on the route from Beijing to Kaunas with chartered freighters, and I would expect regular traffic to be opened soon, expecting up to three weekly flights bringing in some 30-40 tonnes of cargo, Jan Hyttel, Hoptrans member of the Board, told newstodate in a story carried on May 12, 2016.
Driving the project is the growing flow of Chinese e-trade commodities destined for the European, Russian and other markets within convenient reach of the Baltic region where Hoptrans operates a large fleet of trucks on both scheduled and ad-hoc routes.
Hoptrans will, however, also be actively marketing the capacity of the freighter on its return flight from Kaunas to China.
Hoptrans has rich experience to back the new venture, having managed regular charter freighter traffic into Kaunas from Shanghai for period of 18 months until five years ago.
According to sources in the industry, and now confirmed also by Hoptrans, the company plans to start a twice-weekly freighter services from September 2016 between Tianjin Binhai International Airport and Kaunas Airport, operated with a Boeing 747-300F aircraft on Belarus registration.
-We have already performed a number of test flights on the route from Beijing to Kaunas with chartered freighters, and I would expect regular traffic to be opened soon, expecting up to three weekly flights bringing in some 30-40 tonnes of cargo, Jan Hyttel, Hoptrans member of the Board, told newstodate in a story carried on May 12, 2016.
Driving the project is the growing flow of Chinese e-trade commodities destined for the European, Russian and other markets within convenient reach of the Baltic region where Hoptrans operates a large fleet of trucks on both scheduled and ad-hoc routes.
Hoptrans will, however, also be actively marketing the capacity of the freighter on its return flight from Kaunas to China.
Hoptrans has rich experience to back the new venture, having managed regular charter freighter traffic into Kaunas from Shanghai for period of 18 months until five years ago.