Great Wall Airlines to resume services to India

Chinese freight carrier Great Wall Airlines said that it has been cleared to resume services after the U.S. Treasury Department removed it from a list of companies accused of helping Iran acquire weapons of mass destruction. The airline said it successfully appealed to have its name removed from the list. "We expect to resume services soon," Tan Kai Ping, the company's president, said in a statement. Tan thanked the Treasury Department for responding to the company's appeal. "At no time was it ever suggested that Great Wall Airlines had played a role in any activity for which sanctions were imposed," Tan said. He said the company would resume cargo services to Amsterdam; Incheon, South Korea; and Mumbai, India, and was considering expanding beyond those routes. The Shanghai-based airline, a Singaporean-Chinese joint venture, was launched in June. The company is also 25 percent owned by Singapore Airlines Cargo Pte. Ltd. and 24 percent by Dahlia Investments Ptd. Ltd., a
wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore's state-owned investment company Temasek Holdings.

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