Mozambique: LAM’s first cargo plane to start operating from March 25th

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Mozambique: LAM’s first cargo plane to start operating from March 25th

2:57 CAT | 14 Mar 2024

Photo: LAM

Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique (LAM) will operate its first cargo plane from March 25th, a Boeing 737-300F presented yesterday by the company, which has invested US$3 million (€2.74 million) in the new venture, the general director told Lusa.

“Mainly it will be for the transport of domestic cargo, serving South Africa and Tanzania, but also other countries at a regional level,” explained Theunis Crous, after the public presentation of the LAM Cargo brand and the company’s first exclusively cargo aircraft at Maputo airport.

“We are facing a new era in LAM’s cargo transport services,” the general director said at the launch of the company’s Cargo and Correio Expresso services, which will use the new aircraft, acquired under leasing.

The new Boeing 737-300F has a cargo capacity per flight of 17 tons and joins LAM’s fleet, which also includes one Boeing 737-700, three Bombardier Q400s, three Bombardier CRJ 900s and three Embraer 145s, all for passengers and with a cargo capacity per flight that varies between 1.2 and five tons.

“The start of this cargo service represents eight months of preparation,” the LAM general director highlighted.

A estatal aérea de #Moçambique LAM acaba de apresentar a sua nova aeronave adquirida para serviços de transporte de carga. O cargueiro 737 – 300 começa a operar a partir do dia 25. #LAM #FlyModernArk pic.twitter.com/pJC5Lw5inI

— Alexandre Nhampossa (@AllexandreMZ) March 13, 2024

Theunis Crous is also general director of the South African Fly Modern Ark (FMA), appointed by the Mozambican government in April last year to mastermind the recovery of LAM, and who took on the role of general director of the airline this month.

LAM operates regular passenger flights to the country’s 10 provincial capitals and to the Mozambican cities of Vilanculos and Nacala. Regionally, it also flies to Johannesburg and Cape Town (South Africa), Dar-Es-Salaam (Tanzania), Harare (Zimbabwe) and Lusaka (Zambia), with the launch of flights to Lilongwe (Malawi) and Nairobi (Kenya).

LAM has also been flying three times a week to Lisbon since last December, the only intercontinental destination it currently serves.

Source: Lusa