Cathay Cargo celebrated the start of the Year of the Snake with its annual Kung Hei Fat Choy party held at the Sheraton Hong Kong Hotel & Towers with customers and industry partners in early February. 

Around 250 guests from Hong Kong’s freight forwarder community were joined by Cathay Cargo’s industry partners, including Hong Kong Airport Authority, the Hong Kong Shippers’ Council, IATA and HAFFA (Hong Kong Association of Freight Forwarding & Logistics Ltd).

The event started with a golden dragon and lion dance performance, which saw Cathay CEO Ronald Lam, Cathay Chief Customer and Commercial Officer Lavinia Lau, Director Cargo Tom Owen and General Manager Cargo Commercial James Evans participate in the traditional eye-dotting ceremony.

Owen then thanked the guests and shared an update on Cathay Cargo’s strong performance in 2024. He said that the coming year would see a continued focus on digitalisation, the ongoing refreshment of the suite of special shipment solutions, starting with Cathay Fresh, the full return of cargo capacity across the passenger network and the further development of imports into the Greater Bay Area using multimodal links as central to Cathay Cargo’s determination to become the world’s best air-cargo carrier. 

The evening also featured a lucky draw for prizes that included an afternoon tea experience for two at Sky Lounge-Sheraton Hong Kong Hotel & Towers, two Business class round-trip tickets to Asia, and two Business class round-trip tickets to anywhere within the Cathay Pacific’s extensive network. These were won by Henry Ho, Deputy General Manager at Nippon Express, Siu Kwok-kwan, Project Manager at BAS (HK) Ltd, and Gloria Sham, Operation Supervisor at Narita Express (HK) Ltd respectively.