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  • Turkish Airlines Marks 15 Years in Bangladesh with Dhaka Half Marathon

    Turkish Airlines Marks 15 Years in Bangladesh with Dhaka Half Marathon

    Turkish Airlines drew roughly 5,000 runners to Dhaka’s Hatirjheel circuit on Saturday. The race marked 15 years of the carrier’s commercial flights in Bangladesh.

    The event, organised alongside sports management outfit ActivePulse, brought international and local participants to the capital’s central water-ring corridor. It showed a transport link that grew alongside trade between Ankara and Dhaka.

    Fifteen Years of Capital Flights

    Islam Gure, Turkish Airlines general manager in Dhaka, led the delegation with airport officials and Turkish diplomats. Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport executive director Group Captain Ragib Samad met airline station heads and commercial partners at the finish line.

    Route planners mapped the Hatirjheel course for elite runners and community fitness groups across several distance categories. ActivePulse founders Tanvir Ahmed and Morsaline Ahmmed managed logistics and course setup across the lakeside venue.

    For the past 15 years, we have been connecting Bangladesh with Türkiye and the rest of the world. But for us, it has never been only about flying from one destination to another. It is about connecting people, bringing cultures closer together, building friendships and creating new opportunities.

    Corporate Footprint and Cargo Links

    Saturday’s run put Turkish corporate ties across Bangladeshi manufacturing and retail on display. Executives from home-appliance maker Singer Beko Bangladesh and energy supplier United Aygaz LPG joined airline leaders at the event.

    Passenger traffic between Dhaka and Istanbul supports an air freight corridor into Europe. Turkish Cargo station manager Mohammad Arif Hossain Khan and airline accounting manager Semih Kulcu attended the race. Their division continues to move Bangladeshi garment exports to European retailers via belly-hold and dedicated freighter space.

    Bilateral Trade Flow

    Long-haul carriers out of Dhaka face fierce competition from Gulf rivals like Emirates, Qatar Airways and Saudia. Turkish Airlines defends its market share by selling single-hop connections through Istanbul into secondary European cities. That routing bypasses Middle Eastern hubs for time-sensitive apparel and textile cargo.

    Direct scheduled flights to Dhaka began 15 years ago. The carrier steadily added frequencies for business travellers, migrant workers and cargo volume. Over the same span, Turkish brands stepped up direct investments in Bangladeshi assembly plants and appliance retail networks.

    Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport is now completing its third terminal. That expansion will set future flight slot allocations and cargo handling capacity for every long-haul carrier operating in Dhaka.

  • Turkish Cargo makes eBookings more efficient and flexible for customers

    Turkish Cargo makes eBookings more efficient and flexible for customers

    Boasting the world’s widest international flight network, Turkish Cargo continues to provide innovative and flexible solutions to the air cargo industry through digital transformation. Through a direct data connection with CargoWise, Turkish Cargo offers shippers on the platform real-time rates, capacity availability, and e-Reservation services within the leading logistics operating system used by the world’s largest freight forwarders and 3PLs.

    The eReservation integration between CargoWise and Turkish Cargo’s management system, COMIS, enables real-time access to air cargo rates, flight availability, and booking confirmations. Shippers can easily choose the suitable flights and make bookings with Turkish Cargo, all without leaving the CargoWise platform. The API connection enhances operational efficiency by eliminating errors due to manual data entry. This approach makes processes more transparent and helps reduce costs.

    Commenting on the collaboration, Turkish Airlines Senior Vice President of Cargo Marketing Selçuk Gençaslan, said: “As Turkish Cargo, we transport approximately 2 million tons of cargo to over 360 destinations within our flight network every year. Our wide flight network and high capacity allow us to be globally accessible while offering competitively cost-effective, innovative solutions. Consequently, we focus on offering digital solutions to our customers by swiftly adapting to the evolving dynamics of the industry and thus, we are pleased to advance our mission of delivering the best service to our customers through this collaboration with Cargo Wise.”

    Jorre Cobelens, Vice President – Logistics Data and Connectivity, WiseTech Global, said: “By establishing direct data connectivity with Turkish Cargo we enable our CargoWise customers to efficiently process tens of thousands of unique shipments on the world’s largest air cargo network from within CargoWise. This increases productivity for the entire industry during and after the eBooking process, avoids double data entry, reduces human errors, and eliminates unnecessary emails. The API integration provides Turkish Cargo’s customers with real-time communication directly within CargoWise, which also includes the ability to modify a booking until final execution of the Master Air Waybill. With this partnership, the transparent data sharing enables Turkish Cargo to optimize their planning and capacity management.”

    Turkish Cargo continues to provide its business partners with more flexible, efficient, and reliable solutions by accelerating digital transformation projects in the logistics industry.

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  • Budapest Airport Starts Construction Of A New European Gateway For Air Cargo

    Budapest Airport Starts Construction Of A New European Gateway For Air Cargo

    Construction of Budapest Airport’s (BUD) new dedicated freight centre, Cargo City, part of the EUR160 million BUD:2020 Development Programme at the Hungarian hub, has begun. The EUR32.6 million investment into a new 20,000 sq m cargo handling facility and new dedicated B747-8F freighter stands, will centralise cargo operations and expand the airport’s handling capacity to handle increasing air cargo volumes at BUD in the years to come.

    After unprecedented cargo volume development of 39 per cent over two years, BUD processed a record 127,145 tonnes of cargo in 2017, and has seen a further 15.5 per cent increase in tonnage between January and August 2018 compared to the same period in 2017.

    As part of the BUD:2020 Development Programme, Budapest Airport opened two state-of-the-art express facilities in 2017 with a total area of 16,000 sq m in order to supply increasing volumes from the express and e-commerce business.

    “This is an exciting milestone for the Hungarian cargo community. Following on from our infrastructure developments for the integrator market, our aim is to provide the ideal environment for air cargo with our Cargo City project,” said René Droese, Executive Director Property and Cargo at Budapest Airport.

    “With the start of AirBridgeCargo and Silk Way West Airlines services in 2018, we now have five freighter operators at BUD.

    “Volumes from our existing full-freighter partners, such as Cargolux, Turkish Cargo, and Qatar Airways Cargo, are also increasing.

    “The cargo connectivity of BUD is also continuously expanding via the new belly cargo services of LOT, American Airlines, and Qatar Airways, as well as Emirates, Air China, and Air Canada Rouge.”

    President of the Hungarian Investment Promotion Agency (HIPA) Róbert Ésik added, “Hungary is the world’s seventh most popular investment destination, according to IBM’s Global Location Trends 2017 Annual Report.

    “The Cargo City development at BUD supports and warmly welcomes the new investments in Hungary.”

    Jost Lammers, CEO of Budapest Airport said, “Air cargo is of strategic importance to BUD, and Cargo City will ensure that we continue to provide our growing customer base with efficient, modern facilities, so that they can thrive in our booming catchment area.”

    Budapest this summer welcomed Kuehne + Nagel to its cargo community and saw four new North American routes launched, connecting New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia in the USA, and Toronto, Canada to Budapest.

    As part of ongoing investment in its cargo offering, the Central European hub will once again team up with its sister airports Düsseldorf and Hamburg, both in Germany, to take part in The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA)’s Air Cargo Forum in Toronto from the 16th to 18th October 2018.

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