Coyne Airways to serve Caspian via London, Cologne

Coyne Airways to serve Caspian via London, Cologne United Kingdom-based Coyne Airways will later this month start a weekly Boeing 747 freighter service from London Stansted and Cologne to destinations across the Caspian region.
   The service will have 100 tons of capacity and depart from Stansted every Monday. From London and Cologne, the aircraft will operate to the Caspian cargo hub of Tbilisi in Georgia to connect with Coyne's regional freighter services to the Kazakhstan cities of Aktau, Atyrau and Uralsk. Coyne also provides trucking services from Tbilisi to Baku in Azerbaijan and Yerevan in Armenia.
   'This new service not only offers our customers extra capacity, it eliminates the need to truck ex-U.K. freight to the continent that was required before and enables us to offer far later cut-off times for freight,' said Larry Coyne, chief executive officer.
   'With this change we will deliver quicker end-to-end transit times for our customers. Using a Boeing 747 with both front and side loading capability is also well suited to the larger type of shipments destined for the Caspian market, notably oil and gas equipment and heavy machinery,' Coyne said.