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Sultan takes over from the Emir of airfreight

[ July 4, 2013   //   Chris ]

Emirates has found a successor to its long-serving cargo supremeo, Ram Menen, who retired from the Middle East carrier earlier this month. Nabil Sultan, whose career spans more than 20 years in commercial roles within Emirates, has been appointed the new divisional senior vice president, cargo. He was previously divisional senior vice president for revenue optimisation and distribution.

He began his career with Emirates in 1990 in the IT department and has worked in a range of roles all over the world including senior vice president for commercial operations West Asia and Indian Ocean, senior vice president, commercial operations Gulf, Middle East and Iran and senior vice-president, commercial operations for Europe.

In 2009, he was promoted to divisional senior vice president, revenue optimisation and distribution.

He said he was “excited by the opportunity to further develop and expand the cargo division, building on the success it has achieved to date. Emirates SkyCargo will continue to focus on providing our customers with excellent service, the development of innovative products and services and building our global network and freighter operation.”

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