Yangtze River Express awards Menzies Aviation ramp handling contract at Hong Kong Airport

Yangtze River Express will operate 5 weekly flights on behalf of DHL, using B737-300F aircraft. This contract commenced in early April.

The airline serves a number of domestic and international destinations and recently received US permission to operate to Anchorage and Los Angeles.

Paul Smith, Director Asia Pacific for Menzies Aviation plc, said:

"We are very pleased indeed to have won the contract with this rapidly growing Chinese freight carrier. Yangtze River are based in Shanghai, and serve a growing number of domestic and international destinations, and we look forward to being of service here, and elsewhere in our global network as they expand."

Menzies Aviation is one of the world's major independent suppliers of ground handling services to the aviation market providing passenger, ramp and cargo services for many of the world's leading airlines and some of the busiest international airports. The division employs some 12,500 people across the world, at 109 airports in 24 countries servicing more than 500 aviation customers.