CF works to help fight against Gulf of Mexico oil spill

Chapman Freeborn Airchartering has coordinated a series of worldwide aircraft charters to New Orleans, US, to help tackle the leak from the site of the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

CF's UK office coordinated an initial cargo charter using a B747-400F to transport around 60 tons of technical oil spill equipment from the UK's East Midlands airport to New Orleans. A B747-200F charter, managed by the company's Singapore team, also departed to New Orleans from Singapore with an additional 55 ton consignment.

CF also arranged two further B747-200F charters to transport 80 tons of equipment from Qingdao, China, to New Orleans. The company's passenger charter expertise was also called upon by a Netherlands-based salvage specialist company who were dispatched to the region in the immediate aftermath of the Deepwater blow-out.

CF's Amsterdam office arranged for a Falcon 7X executive jet to transport a team of seven experts to New Orleans.