Etihad Cargo has signed a handling partnership agreement with Worldwide Flight Services (WFS), a member of the SATS Group, at 12 major international worldwide airports including Boston and Chicago. WFS already handles the Abu Dhabi-based airline in New York JFK and Washington Dulles. Other airports included in the deal are Schiphol Amsterdam, Bangkok, Barcelona, Bengaluru, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, London Heathrow, Madrid, and Paris CDG. WFS expects to handle over 150,000 tonnes a year in total.
Etihad Cargo offers a wide range of specialty products including live animals, dangerous goods, valuables and vulnerable cargoes, personal effects, as well as cold chain products for pharmaceuticals and perishables cargoes.
Etihad has been a fast-growing cargo handling customer of WFS since the two organisations signed their first cargo agreement in Frankfurt in 2005.