Ethiopian Airlines and Liège Airport renew successful partnership in Air Cargo

Liège Airport has been serving as Ethiopian’s main European cargo hub since 2008 for Ethiopian flower exports to the European market and the import of high value goods into Africa.

Ethiopian and Liège Airport’s five years partnership has been very successful thanks to the phenomenal growth of trade between Africa and Europe. They have tapped into this growth by leveraging the operational excellence of Ethiopian Cargo, Africa’s largest cargo operator, and the state-of-the art cargo facilities and services at Liege Airport.

Ethiopian Airlines CEO, Tewolde Gebremariam, said: “Ethiopian has become a truly global cargo operator with 8 dedicated freighters, including B777-200 LR freighters serving 24 cargo destinations on 4 continents, and a growing cargo infrastructure, including the construction of a 1.2 million tons annual capacity cargo terminal in Addis Ababa.

Liège Airport is our main cargo hub for the European market and has been instrumental in the success of Ethiopian flower exports to Europe. We currently operate 3 wide-body B777-200 LR freighters to Liège every single day during the peak season. I wish to thank Liège Airport, its management and staff, for their top notch service and facilities, which were critical in making our partnership successful. With Africa’s economic growth in general and Ethiopia’s export-driven growth in particular, the prospects are indeed very bright for our long and mutually beneficial partnership to continue to thrive".

Luc Partoune, CEO of Liège Airport, added: "As our first client to and from Africa we are proud to have served Ethiopian Airlines since their start with wide-bodies to and from Europe; the fact that Ethiopian Airlines is extending our cooperation based on aforementioned reasons confirms our excellence in perishables, the flexibility of our services, the availability 24 hours a day, and the interconnectivity with all the operators based at Liège airport.”