Denmark’s Star Air to add five freighters including 777s

Star Air (Denmark) (SRR, Copenhagen Kastrup) will induct five additional freighters over the next three years, parent firm Maersk has announced.

The Danish shipping giant said three B767-300Fs, to be leased from Air Transport Services Group’s leasing arm Cargo Aircraft Management, will be operational in 2022 while two B777-Fs, ordered direct from Boeing, will be delivered around mid-2024.

“As a global integrator of container logistics, Maersk is improving the ability to provide one-stop shop and end-to-end logistics capabilities to our customers. This year, we have strengthened our integrated logistics offering through e-commerce logistics acquisitions, tech investments, expanding our warehouse footprint, and as a natural next step, we are now ramping up our air freight capacity, creating a broader network to cater even better for the needs of customers,” Vincent Clerc, executive vice president and CEO of Ocean & Logistics, A.P. Moller – Maersk, said.

Star Air was established by A.P. Moller – Maersk in 1987. It currently operates an all-B767 fleet of 15 aircraft, including five B767-200(ERBDSF)s, six -PCs, one -SF, one B767-300(ERBDSF), and two B767-300Fs, on behalf of United Parcel Service and DHL Express, predominantly out of Cologne/Bonn and Leipzig/Halle.