Recently, CMA CGM Air Cargo, its air cargo subsidiary, confirmed that the company has withdrawn from the US market and redeployed aircraft to Asian and Middle Eastern markets.

FreightWaves last week reported that Dafei's website no longer shows Chicago and Miami as its cargo plane destinations.

According to the flight tracking website Flightradar24 data, Dafei cargo plane last left Chicago in April 29th, deployed in the Chicago route on the cargo plane is now used to fly to India Mumbai new routes.

At the end of last year, CMA CGM Air Cargo suddenly suspended Chicago and Atlanta flights so that two Airbus A330 cargo planes temporarily served Qatar Airways and DHL Express. In January this year, CMA CGM Air Cargo resumed service to the United States.

the company said at the time that the decision had more to do with the steps required to register the aircraft in France. In January, the company told FreightWaves that Chicago and Miami "will remain the primary destinations for its network".

After a year of sluggish shipping, CMA CGM Air Cargo is still searching for the best routes to deploy its small fleet of four A330 -200 aircraft and two Boeing 777 freighters.

CMA CGM Air Cargo, in a statement provided to FreightWaves, said that at the end of March the company stopped its own scheduled service in the United States, "to deploy its fleet to Asia, the Middle East and India".

It is understood that CMA CGM Air Cargo on April 11 to open a regular round-trip flight from Guangzhou to Paris, the flight frequency is three flights a week, by the A330 special cargo aircraft.

In addition, since May 15, the airline began to provide air services from its headquarters in Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport to Abu Dhabi, a stop on the route to Guangzhou, China. The company said services from Abu Dhabi to Paris would be available in the near future.

In early April this year, Dafei Group and Air France-KLM began a 10-year alliance, under which the two sides will jointly promote cargo capacity and combine networks and dedicated services to increase scale and competitiveness.

Dafei also from Boeing on two 777 and from Airbus on four brand new A350 freighters.

Source: one shipping