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By Elmo Leonard

MAC Holdings (Pvt) Ltd was designated as the general sales agent for Thai Cargo, covering Sri Lanka and the Maldives from January 31.

Announcing the appointment, managing director, for Thai Cargo and Mail Commercial, Chancai Singroroj congratulated MAC Holdings, and said he was looking forward to a growing mutual business cooperation between the two entities.

In the past, Thai Airways had successfully served Sri Lanka by carrying tourists and business persons, between the two nations, Singtoroj said.

Thai Airways, also brings into Sri Lanka, raw materials from Singapore, Hong Kong, China and Japan to support the growing number of factories in the country, and also air freights finished products out of Sri Lanka to major markets in the United States, UK and Germany.

Singtoroj, was impressed by Sri Lanka's projected economic performance for 2006, of 6 percent. He noted that this growth is expected to come from major industrial categories such as textiles, weaving apparel, leather products, food and chemical products.

Also, that the production of fish is expected to reach 275 million kilograms during the year. Thus, Thai Airways, foresaw the growth of international trade, here. With it, Thai Airways, also anticipated more raw materials to enter Sri Lanka and more finished products, to be freighted out.

The Thai, managing director, assured that as a cargo carrier, his entity will coordinate closely to carry such growing traffic, to and out of Sri Lanka. In June, this year, Thai Airways projects the opening of a customs free zone warehouse at its new airport in Bangkok called Suvarnabhumi.

Thus, Thai has restructured its distribution channel in Sri Lanka by working with a general sales agent so that Thai Cargo can better reach out to the outreaches of Sri Lanka, and can better satisfy the island's growing business requirements, Singtoraj said.

MAC Holding's CEO, Andre Fernando, told businesspersons, who used Thai Cargo air freight services that he looked forward to their cooperation in filling all Thai cargo space allocations throughout the year and in the years to come.

He also thanked the customers of Thai, who had supported the airline during its direct presence, here. All members of the former Thai Cargo team lead by Sunanda Perera will continue to work with MAC Holdings.

Thai ambassador for Sri Lanka and the Maldives, Karn Chiranond, manager, cargo and mail sales, West Asia, South East Asia and Australia, Khun Suvadha Sibunruan were also present.

As the newly appointed GSA, MAC Holdings intended opening its doors to a wider network of cargo sales agents, Fernando said. He called upon any company present, who wished to work with MAC Holdings, to join in.

MAC Holdings will strive to serve its clients better, by maintaining offices in the city of Colombo, at the Katunayake airport, and in Male.

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