At the beginning of 2007, I am proud to tell you that European Cargo Services proves more than ever to be the strongest, most reliable GSSA partner for airlines who plan to outsource their cargo activity. It is their best asset for maximizing their revenue / cost ratio while focusing on their core-business.
Indeed, our integrated network of 32 subsidiaries in 22 countries, along with sub-agents partnership in nearly 20 countries, enables ECS to serve airlines on a worldwide basis. In the future, further external growth, with full support from our new shareholder, will widen the scope of the network, thus enabling us to maximize our Total Cargo Management service.
To date, almost ten airlines partners benefit from this global outsourcing service, which leverages the ECS integrated network to provide them with a one-stop shop service from sales to billing. Furthermore, our world-class IT system, running on the airline industry standard SITA communications network, offers ECS customers on-line and on-time traceability.
We hope you will share our enthusiasm for the benefits that can be drawn from the tool ECS has been building over the years. Our new sales organization is eager to demonstrate the benefits you can draw from it and to make you one of our new satisfied customers.