Users can access the new website www.skycargo.com, which represents a small but significant name change with the hyphen snipped off the previous web address www.sky-cargo.com.

From the homepage, registered customers can directly and conveniently use SkyChain, Emirates SkyCargo's one stop web shop, to check flight schedules and cargo capacity, use Quick Track to electronically follow a shipment's journey, print barcode labels and communicate with all the stakeholders on a shipment's logistics chain.

A nifty new feature on the website is the Price Quote, which offers all customers an instant estimate for air freighting shipments based on origin-destination and weight-volume factors.

The homepage also hosts information on Emirates SkyCargo's range of products and solutions, its latest corporate news and fuel index. Users can download an attractive and useful free screensaver that displays the local time in major cities. In the coming months, the site will also prominently display special offers and promotions, which will benefit users around its network that now spans 77 destinations in 54 countries.

Visitors to the www.skycargo.com can access the media site to view both the latest and its archived news articles, newsletters, photos and even a virtual tour of the Emirates SkyCargo Centre. The website is also a gateway to interesting local and international websites and links.

Prakash Nair, Emirates' Manager Network Cargo Sales Development said: "Our new website is a strategic tool in our phased implementation of customer-focussed solutions and now represents our brand name better. Its design and development was based on customer feedback and on our own research to address their evolving needs."

He added: "Besides a bright look and feel, the website offers customers speed, convenience, transparency, and empowers them with the latest information and communication tools. The new website prepares the groundwork for our new generation cargo system that will be rolled out in 2006."

www.skycargo.com integrates all the features of both the previous websites - the information site on Emirates SkyCargo and transactional SkyChain - to create a single, unified portal. Registration is simple and free, and users trying to access any of the former websites will be automatically rerouted to the new website.

Emirates SkyCargo's SkyChain module continues its strong showing with transactions increasing by more than 65 per cent since last year. The cargo division has launched its new website fast on the heels of introducing a whole new range of products and solutions.