Asiana Airlines starts cargo service from Seoul to Miami International Airport

South Korea's Asiana Airlines started a three-times-weekly cargo service from Seoul, South Korea to Miami International Airport in the US. With this service, Miami will have four Asian airlines running freighter flights to the important global cargo centres of Taipei, Seoul and Hong Kong, with cargo tonnage between Miami and Asia increasing nine per cent till now in 2011. In 2010, cargo quantum between all of Asia and MIA increased 16 per cent, while trade grew 36 per cent to a net US$3.4 billion.