Air One Aviation has transported eight 12 m-long furnace coil boxes from Liège to Abu Dhabi on behalf of project forwarder deugro.
The boxes were loaded through the nose door of a Boeing 747-400 freighter from the fleet of Air One’s affiliated British cargo airline One Air. The shipment weighed 57 tonnes in total.
Air One, which oversees a network of cargo airlines and aviation services, markets a fleet of 11 747-400Fs for three airline partners, including two nose-loading versions of the aircraft.
“The arrival of a second nose-loading 747-400 into our managed fleet at the end of 2024 increased our ability to transport out-of-gauge shipments like these for our customer, deugro,” said Saeed Ghodrat, senior charter manager at Air One.
“Given our extensive knowledge of the 747-400’s cargo-carrying capabilities and our ability to coordinate loading and unloading at departure and arriving airports, we can respond to the need for fast charter services for out-of-gauge shipments as well as supporting flying programmes for projects which require a combination of general and outsize freighter capacity.”
HLPFI reported in October 2024 that Air One was expanding its airfreight services to China, Japan, and Malaysia as well as its commercial presence in Asia.
