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SkyCargo planning daily Chennai-Hyderabad service

V. Rishi Kumar

HYDERABAD, July 2

EMIRATES SkyCargo, the Dubai-based Emirates Airlines' Air Freight Division, is exploring the possibility of building a daily cargo product between Chennai and Hyderabad using interline agreements.

With the launch of daily flights between Dubai and Hyderabad, the cargo handling capacity of SkyCargo will get a further boost. Backed by this move, it will enable the airline to build on its offline presence.

This facility, to start with, enables timely delivery of exports and imports between Hyderabad and Europe, the USA and the Asia-Pacific region, according to Emirates officials.

Various exports from Hyderabad encompass chemicals, pharmaceuticals, engineering goods and garments to the Middle East, Europe and the USA and Canada along with the time-definite `transport of software.' Its imports include personal effects and household goods originating from all points in the Middle East.

A holder of the Cargo Airline of the Year Award, Emirates Skycargo, has reaffirmed its place as a leader with the introduction of SkyChain, a network of integrated systems for the management of cargo logistics.

SkyChain provides the airline and its customers with technology that radically changes the way the airline handles business. Instead of various parties engaged in cargo handling and logistics chain working independently with each other, SkyChain links al l parties together in a communication pipeline from which each can extract and update the information they need for the benefit of all.

Following the addition of Hyderabad hop to its network in India, with SkyChain, Emirates cargo customers can now check schedules and space availability, track and trace shipments, make bookings on-line in real time, print airway bill details on a standar d A4 paper in the IATA format and pass them to SkyCargo from anywhere in the world using the Internet or the email.

Emirates' Skycargo contributes over 17 per cent of total Emirates' airline revenues. The division specialises in delivery of time-sensitive consignments supplementing its personal service.