Cargo 2000's airline membership has reached 24 leading international carriers with EgyptAir Cargo's decision to join its program to improve the quality of air cargo, streamline air cargo processes, achieve cost efficiencies and improve customer satisfaction.

Eng. Hussein El-Refaie, Vice President Economic for the airline, stated: 'EgyptAir Cargo is focusing on the essential business needs of understanding, anticipating and responding to customer demands with effectively marketed and efficiently produced services. This means providing the highest levels of quality of products and performance during service delivery. Cargo 2000 provides an excellent platform for quality monitoring and reporting as part of the quality management system and will lead to us achieving our objectives of improved customer satisfaction and greater competitiveness.'

EgyptAir's cargo fleet consists of two medium range wide body A300B4 freighters and two A300-600Fs. In addition, the airline carries freight in the bellies of its passenger aircraft, significantly boosting its capacity and extending EgyptAir's cargo network to around 70 international cities in Europe, USA, Canada, Africa, the Gulf area and the Far East. In addition to its main cargo hub at Cairo International Airport, the airline has developed several regional hubs at Ostend Airport in Belgium, Stansted Airport in the UK, Hahn Airport in Germany, Sharjah Airport and Chateauroux Airport in France, offering direct access from and to the most important trading centers in Europe and the Middle East.

Lothar Moehle, Program Director of Cargo 2000, said: 'Like all of our airline members, EgyptAir recognizes the importance and value of adopting Cargo 2000's quality standards for air cargo. This not only provides opportunities to improve performance and reduce costs, it sends a strong signal to freight forwarders and, most importantly, to shippers around the world that companies participating in Cargo 2000 are working to measurable industry standards and share a common commitment to quality.'