Emirates orders 5 additional 777 freighters, brings freighter fleet to 21 units by end 2026

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Emirates has placed a steadfast bid for 5 much Boeing 777 freighters to beryllium delivered from 2025/2026.

Together with its erstwhile orders, Emirates present has 14 Boeing 777Fs pending transportation from Boeing from present until extremity 2026.

In addition, Emirates has signed a multi-year lease hold with Dubai Aerospace Enterprise for 4 Boeing 777Fs successful its existing fleet. Based connected these investments, by December 2026, Emirates SkyCargo expects to run a fleet of 21 production-built Boeing 777 freighters, importantly expanding its existent fleet of 11 units.

Emirates besides remains invested successful converting 10 rider Boeing 777-3000ERs into freighters for further capableness and fleet growth.

HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman and Chief Executive, Emirates Airline and Group said: “We’re investing successful caller freighter craft to conscionable surging request and supply our customers astir the satellite with adjacent much flexibility, connectivity, and options to leverage marketplace opportunity.

“Demand for Emirates’ aerial cargo services has been booming. This reflects Dubai’s increasing prominence arsenic a preferred and trusted planetary logistics hub, and besides the occurrence of Emirates SkyCargo’s bespoke solutions that code the needs of shippers successful antithetic manufacture sectors.”

“Emirates continues to acceptable the absorption for our manufacture and we profoundly admit the spot they person placed in the Boeing widebody family to serve as the backbone of their planetary fleet,” said Stephanie Pope, president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes. "We are arrogant to enactment Emirates SkyCargo’s maturation arsenic it relies connected the show and versatility of our 777 Freighter to further link the world.”

Even arsenic it inducts caller freighter craft into its operations, Emirates’ cargo part volition proceed to harness the airline’s each wide-body rider fleet to facilitate the fast, reliable and businesslike question of goods worldwide, offering customers much flexibility with a fleet premix comprised of 777s, 777-Fs, 747Fs, A350s, and A380s.

The Dubai government’s plans to grow Al Maktoum International airdrome (DWC) is acceptable to make the world's largest hub successful presumption of capacity. DWC volition yet beryllium capable to process 12 cardinal tonnes of cargo annually, supporting the maturation of the adjacent Logistics District which is planned arsenic an planetary basal for planetary cargo and shipping companies, and portion of Dubai’s masterplan to go the pre-eminent multi-modal cargo hub for air, oversea and onshore connections.

As portion of its imaginativeness for the adjacent epoch of its growth, Emirates plans to marque a determination by the extremity of this calendar twelvemonth connected its aboriginal freighter fleet for 2028/29 and beyond, with the Boeing 777-8F and Airbus A350-1000F arsenic contenders.

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