The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] and China Airlines celebrated the delivery of the airline’s 20th Boeing 747-400 Freighter.
EVERETT, Wash. – Today’s delivery of the new airplane continues China Airlines‘ leadership in the market with the world’s largest 747-400 Freighter fleet.
The Taiwan-based national carrier operates15 Boeing 747-400 passenger airplanes as well as 12 Boeing Next-Generation 737s.
Boeing projects growth of Asian air cargo markets will continue to lead the world with the domestic Chinese and intra-Asian markets expanding 10.8 percent and 8.6 percent per year, respectively. In Boeing’s World Air Cargo Forecast 2006/2007, Boeing forecasts that world air cargo growth is expected to expand at an average annual rate of 6.1 percent during the next 20 years.
[GADS_NEWS]The Boeing 747 Freighter family is the standard of the air cargo industry, providing more than half of the world’s freighter fleet capacity.
