According to a senior executive with the Basel-based company, the group’s Sao Tomé operation will become more important over
the next decade.
However, he added that the Malabo move had been “prompted by burgeoning pressure of business in Equatorial
Guinea”.
It remains unclear whether Panalpina’s DC-8 aircraft will continue to ply the Sao Tomé route to carry heavy goods and supplies to hubs in Port Gentil, Pointe Noire, Cabinda, Ponta Negra and Soyo in Angola.
However,