Two special Kuwait Airways cargo flights have carried fresh food from India to Kuwait on Thursday, arranged by Fair Exports India, a division of Lulu Group.
The first flight, KU5006, an Airbus A330-900, departed Cochin International Airport at ten-forty in the morning and landed in Kuwait at one-thirty in the afternoon local time, carrying thirty-two tons of fresh fruits and vegetables destined for Lulu Hypermarkets. The aircraft had flown into Kochi empty from Kuwait the previous evening.
A second flight, KU5008, a Boeing 777, left Delhi Airport at eleven in the morning on the same day carrying fifty tons of fresh meat and other products to Kuwait.
Lulu Group says additional cargo flights are being scheduled to ferry food products from various parts of India and other countries. Last week, the group operated similar special flights carrying essential products out of Kochi, Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru , those consignments were bound for the UAE.
Lulu Group International is one of the largest retail and hospitality conglomerates in West Asia, with hypermarkets, shopping malls, and business interests spanning more than twenty countries across the Gulf, Asia, and beyond. It was founded by Yusuf Ali M.A., a Kerala-born Indian businessman, Pravasi Bhartiya samman and Padmashri awardee who moved to Abu Dhabi in the 1970s and built the group from a modest trading operation into a retail empire with an estimated annual turnover of over eight billion dollars. Headquartered in Abu Dhabi, Lulu is widely regarded as a household name across the Gulf, and Yusuf Ali , often referred to simply as M.A. Yusuf Ali has consistently ranked among the most influential business people in the region.
