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Apr 10, 2025 (newstodate): Turkmenistan's Ashgabat Turkmenbashi Airport is thriving on transit cargo on the Europe-Asia lanes.
   A key customer at the airport is Cargolux that made its first call at Turkmenbashi International Airport on July 1, 2015, as a stop on the route from Hong Kong to Budapest, Hungary with a Boeing 747-400F aircraft.
   Since then, the carrier has transported no less than 417,240 tonnes of transit cargo through the airport.
   Under the existing air services agreement signed in 2015, the carrier can perform up to eight weekly scheduled freighter rotations between Luxembourg and Turkmenistan's Ashgabat Turkmenbashi Airport, and till March 2025 Cargolux has operated over 5,960 operations at Ashgabad.