Air Cargo Charter Flights| Scheduled Air Cargo Flights In Africa,Eastern & Central Africa,DR Congo,Kenya ,Ugand Including Somalia,Sudan & Sout
Air cargo has become demanding on African continent especially in War torn countries, countries with poor road infrastructure. The aircraft operators in Africa have acquired the aircrafts that suits the air charter operations in these areas by including in their fleet aircrafts with short take off and landing performance with long-range of over 5 hours 30 minutes. The air charter flights do play an important role in the growth of the African economy especially health, agriculture, textile, hardware, building as it provides air travel services to remote areas.
In Somalia civil war has being going on for years and the international community has offered to provide humanitarian aid and relief supplies including,food,hardware,medicine,medical equipment, medical staff, reading materials, building materials, cloth ,seedlings, animal and many other basic human needs. The Federal government has been able to restore law and order due to the militia that are opposed to the government and the African have send peace keeping troops to assist the federal government with United Nations, on Governmental organizations, diplomatic missions,internationan donor agencies trying to help by providing personnel in education,health,agriculture,livestock,digging of bore-holes for clean water, peace initiatives and ensuring the children and affected families do get the basic human needs like shelter.
Due to insecurity and unstable political solutions there is need of using the most convenient ways to ensure the people of Somalia get relief supplies and hence the need to have air charter flights, scheduled air flights as they are faster though expensive but they do serve the purpose of emergency. There airlines & charter companies that provide scheduled air cargo flights into Mogadishu and Hargesia on a weekly basis thrice for both passengers, freight and cargo flights. The scheduled flights only accommodate 2tones of freight which can not satisfy the demand. The scheduled air flights for passenger and cargo depart Nairobi to Hargesia and Nairobi to Mogadishu using the DC9 ,F28 which can carry upto 70 passengers with 2 tones of cargo. The United Nations has formed a consortium with the non-governmental organizations and has leased aircrafts that do domestic scheduled flights within and out of Somalia. United Nations have identified some areas where they have stationed their security personnel with High Frequency and Very High Frequency radios, satellite phones, internet and have built a base where their personnel and the crew for the aircrafts are housed.
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Due to disruption of the warring militia groups the United Nations have put aircrafts on stand-by for emergency medical evacuation for their personnel and also evacuations to safer areas when the fighting resumes. The type of aircrafts used for passengers by United Nations are Super Kingair 200, Beechcraft 1900 C/D, Dash 8-100/200 series, Buffalos DHC-5, Cessna Caravan 208 .United Nations has entered into agreements with air craft operators who are on stand-by to provide an air ambulance for emergency evacuations on 24 hours 7 days a week which they pay the services whether they utilize or not for a minimum number of hours in a month. The air cargo charters do originate from Kenya Nairobi, Jomo Kenyatta International Airport being the hub for all relief & humanitarian aid flights to Eastern and Central Africa. The fleet for air cargo charter flights are DC-9 Freighter 10 tones,DC-8 Freighter 36 tones, Fokker 27 4.5 tones, Buffalo DHC-5 5 tones, Hawker 748 5 tones, Cessna Caravan 1 tone, Let 410 1.5 tones, Dash 8 3.5 tones . Airstrip that are unpaved in Somalia can only be operated into and out by DHC-5 Buffalo, Let 410,Cessna Caravan and are Marere,Jamame,Wajid,Johwar,Saccouen,Xuddo.The DC-8 Freighter can only land at Mogadishu International, Asmara .Air cargo aircrafts are manufactured in away that they can airlift motorvechicles and other building materials and aircrafts like DHC-5 Buffalos and C-130 are ideal for air drops and they don't have to land. The air cargo charter flights are charged on a hourly basis whereas the scheduled air cargo flights are charged on per kilo basis. Please on scheduled flights as per the ICAO regulation on dangerous goods carriage no dangerous goods will be carried on passenger flights.
Since the signing of the Compressive Peace Agreement(CPA) between the Southerners and the Northerners In Sudan, which brought to an end the civil war in 1995 and Juba became the capital city for Southern Sudan many business opportunities opened in Southern Sudan which made doing business easier and cheaper. Many firms opened their offices in Juba including aircraft operators who were operating into/out of Lokichogio in Kenya which was the hub for humanitarian aid & relief flights to Southern Sudan. Air cargo charter flights are available From Juba to the interior of South Sudan , Wau,Aweil,Yambio,Akobo,Akon,Malakal,Yei,Rumbek,Bentiu,Pochalla,Boma,Mabior,Bor,Padak,Gumuruk,Atar,Toch,Haat and many other destinations as South Sudan has got over 500 airstrips. Other East Africa countries where air cargo charter flights departs and arrives is at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport ,Wilson Airport,Nairobi,Lokichogio,Nothern Kenya to Juba,Rumbek,Darfur,Elobeid,Khartoum,Port Sudan. Out of Entebbe International Airport ,Uganda you can charter flights to Juba,Rumbek,Yei,Elobeid,Khartoum,Darfur.There are scheduled air flights from Entebbe to Juba,Rubek,Yambio,Yei where you can book space for cargo or freight but not Dangerous Goods.
Air cargo charter flights to DR Congo can be chartered from Daresaalam International Airport, Kilimanjaro International Airport,Mwanza Airport and Zanzibar from Tanzania to Kinshasha,Lubumbashi,Bukavu,Mbujimayi,Benin,Goma .Airlines do operator scheduled air flights and you can book space for cargo or freight subject to availability of space. Out/Into Kenya Jomo Kenyatta airport we have international airlines operating air cargo scheduled flights book cargo or freight to Kinshasha,Lubumbashi,Goma,Mbujimayi,Bukavu and for more space you need to make reservations in advance as they scheduled air flights also has passengers on board. The fleet available for air cargo charter flights are DC-8 Freighter 36 tones,DC-9 Freighter 10 tones,B737-300 Freighter 15 tones, Fokker 27-500 series 4.5 tones, Hawker 748 5 tones, Dash 8 3.5 tones, Cessna Caravan 208 1 tone, Let 410 1.5 tones,Beechcraft 1900C/D 1.7 tones, Super King air 200 1.2 tones. For air cargo charter flights a notice of 2 working days will be required to obtain the landing and over flight clearances. When charging cargo there are elements like ground handling and customs documentation which the client has to give the go ahead as most of the firms do have their own ground handler and clearing agent but on request we can include the cost. In the event these services are requested for the invoice and the total value has to be availed to enable calculate the cost. From Entebbe International Airport, you can charter air cargo charter flights to Kinshasha, Lubumbashi, Bukavu, Goma, Mbujimayi and the entire Congo republic.
Most of the International organizations including United Nations have their regional offices based in Nairobi, Kenya due to its political stability and also being the host for the United Nations offices at UN Gilgiri, Nairobi, Kenya. Kenya and Uganda are the East African states that provide both scheduled & Charter air cargo & passenger flights to South Sudan with Kenya providing consolidated cargo flights out of Nairobi, Jomo Kenyatta International airport to Sudan & Southern Sudan.
Anthony Juma is the Editor and Senior Aviation Director at Wings Over Africa Aviation.
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