Silk Way West Airlines to Double Israel Cargo Flights via Maman Terminal

Expansion in the air freight market: Azerbaijani cargo carrier Silk Way West Airlines, one of the largest air transport companies in the Caspian region, has selected the Maman Cargo Terminal at Ben Gurion Airport to handle all incoming and outgoing cargo for Israel.

Under the agreement, the terminal will provide the airline with loading and unloading services for general cargo as well as complex shipments requiring specialized logistical handling, including pharmaceuticals and live animals.

The company currently operates two weekly cargo flights on the route between Heydar Aliyev International Airport in Baku and Ben Gurion Airport, and is expected to double its activity to four weekly flights in the future. The flights are operated using a fleet of 14 dedicated wide-body cargo aircraft, including Boeing 777F, Boeing 747-400F, and Boeing 747-8F models.

Prior to the war, the company's activity volume on the Israel route stood at approximately 20,000 tons of cargo per year. The planned increase in flight frequency is expected to significantly expand the air cargo capacity available to the local market and strengthen the connection of Israeli importers and exporters to the company's global destination network via its logistics hub in Baku, which includes about 40 destinations in Europe, the Far East, Central Asia, and North America.

Silk Way joins a list of international cargo airlines operating at the Maman terminal, including Challenge Airlines, UPS, DHL, National Airlines, My Freighter, and Astral Airlines.

Oren Sandrossi, CEO of the Maman Cargo Terminal, noted that the Azerbaijani company's choice of the terminal is a vote of confidence in Maman's operational capabilities.

According to him, the planned transition to four weekly flights will strengthen the Israeli economy's air connectivity and provide additional options for transporting cargo between Israel and key global destinations.