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Panalpina anticipates the first Boeing aircraft 747-8 Freighter dressed with the livery of the Helvetic logistic group
the second will be taken in delivery in the next few months
May 31, 2012
Today Panalpina has introduced the first of the two new Boeing aircrafts 747-8 Freighters that for the first time are dressed with the livery of the Helvetic logistic group. The aircraft, that Spirit of Panalpina is christened, is taken in delivery yesterday near the plant of Boeing to Everett, in the State of Washington, and will be used on the route Luxemburg-Huntsville (Alabama).
Last September Panalpina has signed an agreement of wet lease with Atlas Air relative to two new Boeing 747-8F, that they will be the first two to being registered in the United States and will be used in order to replace the two aircrafts of the precedence generation 747-400 Freighters. The second 747-8F will be taken in delivery in the next few months.
Panalpina has remembered that the new ones 747-8F, besides to introduce an ability to advanced 16% regarding that of the 747-400F, have also of innovative characteristics, between which the possibility to use two range of controlled temperature: comprised between 2 and 8 degrees Celsius and other between 15 and 25 Celsius degrees.
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