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Cargolux expands in east Africa aiming to enlarge footprint on the continent
CARGOLUX aims to add new destinations to its Africa network, with its sights set initially on tapping the east Africa market.
"We want to diversify a little bit more into east Africa, you can see we are a little bit weak in east Africa," the carrier's regional director for Africa, Jonathan Clark, told London's Air Cargo News.
"You have got Uganda, Lusaka, Harare, those areas are quite interesting to us, so we will probably be looking at these areas in the future.
"Also Mozambique is quite interesting for us, because there is a lot of oil and gas, particularly LNG, and when that starts to pick up in the next few years I think Mozambique will become quite busy.
Mr Clark said the carrier has also been looking at north Africa and west Africa. However, north Africa's proximity to Europe makes it difficult to justify flying a freighter because the rates are so low, while for west Africa it had been considering Senegal, but there is already a lot of competition into the country.
It would also like to start a service to Addis Ababa but Mr Clark said it was almost impossible to get traffic rights into that market.
"We want to diversify a little bit more into east Africa, you can see we are a little bit weak in east Africa," the carrier's regional director for Africa, Jonathan Clark, told London's Air Cargo News.
"You have got Uganda, Lusaka, Harare, those areas are quite interesting to us, so we will probably be looking at these areas in the future.
"Also Mozambique is quite interesting for us, because there is a lot of oil and gas, particularly LNG, and when that starts to pick up in the next few years I think Mozambique will become quite busy.
Mr Clark said the carrier has also been looking at north Africa and west Africa. However, north Africa's proximity to Europe makes it difficult to justify flying a freighter because the rates are so low, while for west Africa it had been considering Senegal, but there is already a lot of competition into the country.
It would also like to start a service to Addis Ababa but Mr Clark said it was almost impossible to get traffic rights into that market.
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