NEWS RELEASE Please find here a news release issued today by Worldwide Flight Services (WFS)
Media contact: Jamie Roche, JRPR Date: 2 August 2021
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JAPAN AIRLINES GROWS ITS PARTNERSHIP WITH WFS IN EUROPE
Japan Airlines has awarded in Brussels and our requirements for at Brussels Airport. The GDP-trained new online and offline handing time definite handling of large volumes WFS team will ensure the integrity of contracts to Worldwide Flight in Liege,” said Tatsusuke Osakabe, the the temperature-controlled shipments is airline’s Regional Manager Cargo & maintained throughout the storage and Services (WFS) in Europe. Mail, France, Spain and Belgium. handling process.
The airline has partnered with WFS in Marc Claesen, WFS, the world’s largest air cargo Liege to provide cargo handling and Senior Vice President handler, has invested heavily to ramp transportation for its new weekly Commercial EMEAA at provide specialist pharma facilities for Boeing 747 freighter flight from the WFS, commented: “Japan its airline and forwarding clients. This Belgian airport to Tokyo. In a separate Airlines is a highly valued includes 15 dedicated pharma facilities development, Japan Airlines has also WFS customer, and we in Amsterdam, Bangkok, Barcelona, extended its offline handling agreement are proud to be extending the work Brussels, Cape Town, Copenhagen, with WFS at Brussels Airport, which we do for the airline in Europe. Our Cork, Dublin, Frankfurt, Johannesburg, sees WFS working closely with the commitment to providing the highest London, Madrid, Miami, New York JFK, airline’s cargo GSSA partner, J-Air, to levels of handling and compliance for and Paris, which are all either IATA CEIV coordinate road transport connections all pharmaceutical products means we or Good Distribution Practice (GDP) for Japan Airlines’ flights from Paris, are perfectly placed to support Japan certified or compliant. Frankfurt, Amsterdam and London. Airlines’ vaccine charter flights. We are also delighted to welcome the airline as In support of the global Covid WFS has also been appointed by Japan a new customer in Liege and to have vaccination programme, WFS’ Project Airlines to handle a series of all-cargo renewed its offline handling agreement Coldstream task force is continuing flights ex Brussels Airport to Osaka this with us in Brussels. This also enables to coordinate the safe and secure summer carrying Covid vaccines. us to continue our close working handling of shipments across the relationship with our friends at J-Air.” company’s global network, expediting “We are very happy to expand JAL’s handling procedures and ensuring the European partnership with WFS, which WFS is handling the vaccine shipments integrity of the vaccines is protected. responds well to our requests, such as at the dedicated pharma zone in its new for the high quality handling of vaccines 250,000 tonne capacity cargo terminal -ends-
P.T.O About WFS
Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Paris, WFS (www.wfs.aero) is the world’s largest air cargo handler and one of the leading providers of ground handling and technical services with annual revenues of over EUR1.1 billion. Its 22,300 employees serve more than 270 airlines at 170 major airports in 20 countries on five continents.