IN Brief:
- Baltic Ground Services has won My Freighter fuel and ground handling work at Ostrava, Tallinn, and Riga.
- The award extends an existing Tallinn fuelling relationship while adding two further European stations.
- My Freighter operates 10 cargo aircraft and is expanding connections between Central Asia and European gateways.
Baltic Ground Services has expanded its relationship with My Freighter to cover fuel supply and ground handling at Ostrava, Tallinn, and Riga following a competitive tender.
The agreement at Baltic Ground Services (BGS) extends an existing relationship at Tallinn, where the company had already been supplying fuel to the Central Asian cargo carrier. The new award adds Riga in Latvia and Ostrava in the Czech Republic, giving My Freighter a three-airport service arrangement across the Baltic and Central European part of its network.
My Freighter is part of Centrum Holding and operates a fleet of 10 cargo aircraft serving routes between Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. The carrier says it accounted for more than 40% of air cargo moved in and through Uzbekistan during 2025, giving the European contracts a direct connection to a growing Central Asian freight network.
The expansion comes as My Freighter increases its European activity. The airline has separately launched a daily cargo service from Liège to Central Asia, adding another European gateway to a network centred on Tashkent and regional connections across Asia. The BGS agreement does not create new aircraft capacity by itself, but it adds common service support at three other airports used by the carrier.
Ground handling and fuelling sit on the critical path of every freighter turnaround. Aircraft have to be positioned, loaded, fuelled, documented, and released within a limited ground window, with delays potentially affecting onward rotations and the cargo connections built around them. A late departure can therefore carry its effect into the next airport even when the problem began with a local ground-service constraint.
Using one supplier across several stations can reduce some of the commercial and procedural variation involved in those operations. Service levels, reporting, fuel arrangements, and escalation routes can be managed through a common relationship, although each airport still depends on its own equipment, staffing, local procedures, and infrastructure.
The contract is particularly relevant to a carrier whose network is still developing. Cargo airlines frequently adjust frequencies and routings as manufacturing demand, charters, seasonal volumes, and available aircraft change. Having an established handling and fuel provider at several useful European points can make those adjustments easier than building a new supplier relationship every time a station becomes more important.
Tallinn provides continuity because the fuelling relationship already existed there. Riga adds another Baltic point, while Ostrava gives the agreement a Central European location with access to industrial markets in the Czech Republic and neighbouring countries. The three stations therefore serve different catchments rather than simply duplicating one another geographically.
The operating position at Ostrava requires a qualification. BGS’s public contact material currently lists its Czech operation at Ostrava but also states that services there are temporarily suspended. The new tender award confirms that My Freighter has selected BGS for fuel supply and ground handling at the airport, but the announcement does not specify when those services will begin or when the suspension shown on BGS’s site will end.
The agreement is therefore a confirmed contract rather than evidence that all three stations are already handling My Freighter flights under the new arrangement. Tallinn is the established relationship, while Riga and Ostrava are the expansion points covered by the tender.
Time-critical cargo places particular pressure on ground operations because manufacturing components, pharmaceuticals, perishables, and urgent replenishment shipments often move against cut-offs at both ends of a flight. Additional schedule frequency is of limited value if unreliable handling consumes the time saved in the air.
Fuel supply adds another layer because it has to be coordinated with the turnaround rather than treated as an entirely separate airport service. Combining handling and fuelling under the same supplier can reduce the number of interfaces My Freighter has to coordinate at each station, although operational performance will still depend on local execution.
BGS is part of Avia Solutions Group and provides ground handling and aviation fuel services across several European markets. Its relationship with My Freighter gives it exposure to a cargo network whose growth is being driven from Central Asia rather than one of the traditional Western European airline bases.
No financial value, cargo-volume commitment, or minimum flight frequency has been disclosed for the three-airport contract. The development is therefore an operating-network expansion rather than a major capital investment, with My Freighter standardising more of its European ground-service support as it adds routes and develops traffic between Central Asia and European gateways.
Air cargo schedules leave little room for small ground delays when the same aircraft is expected to operate several sectors in sequence. A three-station contract gives My Freighter a simpler service structure; its commercial value will depend on whether that structure produces consistently reliable turnarounds at each airport.
