Goodbye Atatürk, hello SMARTIST
Turkish Cargo has moved all its air cargo operations from Atatürk International Airport to SMARTIST and is now settling into its new home at the Istanbul Airport’s mega cargo facility.
After its opening in 2019, passenger flights were shifted from Atatürk Airport to the new Istanbul Airport but Turkish Cargo continued its freighter operations at Atatürk.
Turhan Ozen, chief cargo officer at Turkish Airlines said: “With SMARTIST, our new home, we are ready for the future more than we have ever been before.”
“During the last three years, we carried out a highly substantial operation in both of our hubs. While we made use of our freighters at the Ataturk Airport, we benefited from our passenger aircraft and the preighter capacity at the Istanbul Airport.”
“We performed approximately 30 thousand flights, 23 thousand of which were performed by making use of our freighters and six thousand of which were by preighters. We transported more than 4 million air cargo shipments, 2.5 million tonnes of which were transported from/to the Ataturk Airport and 1.8 million tonnes of which were transported from/to the Istanbul Airport.”
“Now, we are gathering the air cargo operations which we have been carrying out triumphantly on “dual hub” basis without compromising our service quality, under a single roof at the Istanbul Airport.”
“Thanks to SMARTIST, our new home with all of its processes equipped with autonomous and robotic systems, we as Turkish Cargo, the air cargo bridge of Turkey, are now ready for the future more than we have been ever before.”
