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Economy 14/03/2011 Navoi International Airport to open new flights in 2011
Navoi International Airport to open new flights in 2011
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Navoi International Airport is planning to launch new flights in 2011, Uzbekistan Ovozi (Voice of Uzbekistan) newspaper reported quoting Manager of Airport Gennadiy Kim.

Gennadiy Kim stated that Navoi International Airport is planning to launch flights to Istanbul, Washington, Beijing, Almaty and Minsk.

He said that transit cargo from Navoi free economic zone are delivered to South Korea, Moscow, Delhi, Bangkok, Milan, Brussels and other countries along with the passengers.

Gennadiy Kim underlined that the airport started to send transit freights to Domodedova International Airport in Moscow in December 2010.

Kim said that soon the airport, which meets all international standards, will receive heavy transport aircrafts from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Australia, Italy, Japan and Great Britain.

The Government of Uzbekistan in cooperation with Korean Air created International intermodal logistic center at Navoi Airport.

Center is used as transcontinental transport-forwarding hub, linking Eastern and Sothern Eastern Asia with Europe, Middle East and the CIS.

Freight terminal has been commissioned at Navoi international airport on 12 August 2010. The terminal, as important transportation and shipping unit in logistic chain with developed infrastructure, can cover all range of transportation services in cargo receiving, storage and shipment with use of various transports.

Terminal at Navoi intermodal logistic center can process 300 tonenes of freight per day or 100,000 tonnes a year. South Korea’s Kyung Sang Machinery Co., Ltd, which also equipped Incheon Airport, provided equipment.

Uzbekistan Havo Yollari (Uzbekistan Airways) leased two A300-600 aircrafts from South Korea, which is used for cargo transportation. Each aircraft can lift up to 40 tonnes of cargo and fly up to 7,000 km without stop.

Over 50,100 tonnes of cargo has been transported through Navoi Airport in 2010, which three times up compared to 2009.

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