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Royal Air Maroc boosts cargo links with Beijing

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With its first flight from Casablanca (CMN), Morocco, to Beijing’s Daxing International Airport (PKX), on 20th January 2025, African cargo airline, Royal Air Maroc Cargo, has reinstated an essential Sino-Moroccan trade link.

On Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, a Boeing 787-9 will link the two cities, offering a weekly cargo uplift of approximately 30 tons each way. The three return flights to Casablanca will operate on Tuesdays, Fridays, and Sundays.

These scheduled, direct flights in both directions will ensure fast transit times for cargo customers, offer complete tracking transparency, and enable them to plan long term transport solutions.

Mr. Yassine Berrada, VP Cargo at Royal Air Maroc says: “For many centuries, Morocco’s geographical location has rendered it the perfect gateway for shipping trade to Africa and Europe.

“At Royal Air Maroc, we are proud to go even further, building Casablanca up as a true air bridge between Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

“Our newly launched, thrice-weekly service out of China’s largest airport, not only provides a highly efficient service for Chinese goods destined for Africa, but also offers a direct onward connection to Brazil, thanks to our recently commenced Sao Paolo (GRU) route.”

Royal Air Maroc enjoyed a successful business relationship with the Chinese market prior to the pandemic, with regular flights to Beijing.

Mr. Yassine Berrada, explains: “Reinstating Chinese services was an obvious and natural decision as goods exchange is important.

“We chose China’s largest airport in Beijing as our starting point, since demand is strongest here both in terms of passenger and cargo.

“In the future, we plan to expand connections to other major Chinese cities such as Shanghai and Guangzhou.”

Cargo demand into Beijing is strong given the growing Chinese interest in the vast array of African exports ranging from integrated circuits, electrical control panels and conductors, transistors, mineral and metallic products, copper products, zinc ore, copper-zinc alloy, copper anodes for electrolytic refining, silver ore, lead ore, copper scrap, aluminium alloy, and manganese ore, to textiles, accessories, leather goods, garments, fish oil, frozen fruits and vegetables, and agricultural products.

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