Ethiopian Named 2016 Best African Cargo Airline

Ethiopian Airlines has been voted as the Best Cargo Airline of the Year from Africa and honored as the "2016 Cargo Airline of the Year" at the Air Cargo News awards held at the Lancaster London Hotel, London on last Saturday.


The awards are based on the voting results of more than 18,000 supply chain professionals over a two month period. Shippers, the beneficial owners of the goods, and their logistics partners were asked to vote on the publication's website.

"We are very pleased to win such a distinguished award: Best Cargo Airline of the Year for Africa in the prestigious annual awards organized by Air Cargo News while we are celebrating our 70th year anniversary" Tewolde GebreMariam, Group CEO of Ethiopian Airlines said .

Tewolde said the Ethiopian Cargo Services, is the second largest Strategic Business Unit in the Ethiopian Airlines Aviation Group, has been leading the continent with the largest and efficient air cargo network of connectivity with Europe, North America, ME, and Asia for African exports and imports.

"This award encourages us to do more in our contribution towards the socio-economic development of Africa. I would like to take this opportunity to thank our cargo team for their dedication and our Global cargo customers for their vote of confidence." Tewolde said.

(culled from allafrica.com)