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New bio-pharmaceutical product for Freight Plus S.A.
July 2009: Freight Plus is proud to announce it’s new bio-pharmaceutical product for next day and same deliveries within Greece and the world, via it’s worldwide network of associate offices. This new service will cover the entire chain of logistics for the medical and clinical field in regards to pick up, documentation issuance, packing material provision, inspection, transport via air and delivery to preferred location. Freight Plus will also be able to provide dry ice replenishment plus any kind of cooling material in order to sustain the required temperature level of the commodity. Contact mail will be: biolog@freightplus.gr and any interested party can contact our company's telephone numbers for direct assistance or a presentation of our services.

New GSA contract for Freight Plus S.A.
April 2009: Freight Plus S.A. is proud to announce its newest GSA contract with carrier Blue Air. NAS as general contractor with Blue Air for Cyprus and Greece, has appointed Freight Plus S.A. as its subcontractor for sales out of Greece. Blue Air will be connecting Thessaloniki directly with Baneasa (Bucharest) and Paphos Cyprus twice a week every Thursday and Sunday operating B737. Our overnight RFS service ex Paphos to Larnaca airport, adds an important key factor for agents-clients to ship their cargo from Northern Greece to the main airport of Cyprus. Blue Air is the second carrier who links Thessaloniki to Paphos as a direct service.

Airlines drop their fuel surcharges
Feb 2009: Airlines continue to drop their fuel surcharges, due to the significant decrease on demand for air freight exports out of Greece. Until now these move has proven to be positive for the entire cargo community, as cargo agents are consulting exporters to move their cargo by air, since the all inclusive rate per kilo is at least 50% lower than same last year.

AIA increase 2.7% on annual tonnage
Jan 2009: Athens International Airport Cargo Development Review shows a surprising 2.7% increase on international & domestic freight moved in-out of Athens airport for the year 2008 compared to 2007. This increase is yet another factor to prove that the infrastructure of the new airport has played a significant role in achieving positive results during these really tough times.

Chartered Cargo Flight to Cyprus
Dec 2008: Freight Plus has successfully chartered a Boeing 737-300F Freighter aircraft from Cargo Air a Bulgarian Based Airline , fort shpt of 13 tons ex Latvia to Cyprus, which was originally planned to be trucked ex Latvia to Greece and then loaded on a weekly departure vessel from Piraeus to Limassol port of Cyprus, but due to a congestion at the port shipment had to be moved by air.

NAS adds Lebanon to its network
Nov 2008: Freight Plus and NAS, our proud to present their second destination on their network. After the original destination of Larnaca airport NAS adds Lebanon-Beirut on its daily schedule having in mind to add at least 3 more by the end of 2009.

Freight Plus moves two endangered species
Sep 2008: Freight Plus in cooperation with AAP – Sanctuary for Exotic Animals and Zoo Logistics, a Live Animal handling agent in Schiphol Airport-Amsterdam, has successfully transported via airfreight 2 vervet monkeys, an endangered species, from Athens-Amsterdam airport, on September. This highly delicate procedure was awarded with great success, and the airline used was KLM.

Freight Plus – Rally Acropolis 2008 Logistics Provider
June 2008: Freight Plus has the privilege to be the appointed Logistics agent for 3 Rally Teams joining this years WRC Rally Acropolis. The company has organized the entire import, inland,customs formalities, local handling at the service park of the Rally in Lamia Greece and re-export procedures of the equipment-cars used during the Rally with great success.

Freight Plus – Turkish Airlines cocktail to Cargo Agents
Mar 2008: Freight Plus and Turkish Airlines have organized a cocktail reception at “The Moorings” restaurant in the beautiful area of Lemos-Vouliagmeni by the boat marina, hosting an event for their Greek Cargo Agent clientele. Needless to say that this was the first occasion were Turkish Airlines has invited it’s clients since the appointment of Freight Plus as their Cargo GSSA in 2006. All of the +80 invited guests and airport officials were very satisfied by the level of services Freight Plus has offered to them during these 3 years and the night has ended by awarding top 10 agents.

Record tonnage to Larnaca
Jan 2008: Freight Plus has moved 730,078 kgs (730 tons) to Larnaca-Cyprus on the first year of NAS operation (Mar-Dec 2007). The figure is quite high considering that the launch of our operation was on March.

Freight Plus increases its market share
Jan 2008: Freight Plus / GSSA dept has showed a substantial 77% increase on it’s international carriers representation export statistics in weight-kgs, as for the entire year 2007 Freight Plus has moved (via its client-carriers) 2,918,189 kgs.

Freight Plus – NAS appreciation cocktail to Cargo Agents
Oct 2007: Freight Plus and NAS, our cargo carrier client from Cyprus, has offered a reception cocktail to all of it’s Greek Cargo Agents clientele and friends at “The Margi Hotel” in Vouliagmeni. The night was proven to be a friends gathering more than a business reception, since the +80 guests were having a great time with wine & food beverages.

Freight Plus – Rally Acropolis 2007 Logistics Provider
June 2007: Freight Plus was the exclusive logistics provider for the Rally Acropolis 2007 – Service Park for 9 National Teams , joining this organization. The company has literally “camped” for 10 days on the location of the service park at the Olympic Stadium of Athens, as the entire operation was on a 24-7 basis. Freight Plus has stationed 1 large 20 ton crane, suitable for moving the 20ft and 40ft containers and their “ fragile” cargo. All 9 teams joining the Rally were very satisfied with the level of service provided and the last minute solutions offered, to this challenging environment.

Freight Plus – new GSSA contract
Mar 2007: Freight Plus is awarded the Cargo GSSA contract for NAS Ltd, a cargo operation from Athens-Larnaca on a dally basis using a Boeing 737-300F Freighter aircraft leased from TNT Aviation. The aircraft has the capacity of loading +15 tons of cargo per day.

Last update 29July2009

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