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The company was established in 1972 to handle cargo delivery worldwide via Malaysia Airlines' global network of routes. At that point, MASkargo handled 30,000 tonnes of cargo. It became a subsidiary of Malaysia Airlines in April 1997, with two Boeing 747-200F freighters from the parent company. It has 1,092 employees (as of March 2007). As of 2008, the new cargo facility is located in the Advanced Cargo Centre (ACC) KLIA. MASkargo has a million-tonne cargo capacity.
In 2010, MASkargo, the cargo division of Malaysia Airlines, updated its branding to a more simplified design, diverging from the more colorful scheme of its parent company. The new livery adopted a minimalist approach, featuring a predominantly white color scheme with the company's logo and titles on the tail. This design approach, while officially adopted in 2010, had been intermittently used since the 1990s, particularly on aircraft that were leased from other carriers.
In 2010, Malaysia Airlines placed orders for two Airbus A330-200Fs for MASkargo to operate. An addition of two more aircraft were ordered six months after. One of which was eventually withdrawn from use in 201, leaving the current fleet of three airframes.
On 30 April 2015, Malaysia Airlines announced it would either lease out or sell MASkargo's entire fleet due to its ongoing financial crisis. On 1 November 2015, Malaysia Airlines CEO told reporters that MASkargo would not be shut down.
In March 2016, the renamed MAB Kargo signed an agreement with Silk Way Airlines of Azerbaijan, which sees it use block space on Silk Way flights from Kuala Lumpur to Amsterdam via Baku, thus ending its freighter aircraft service to Europe via the Middle East countries where it had served Dubai's Al Maktoum International Airport.
In October 2016, both Boeing 747-400 planes were phased out, and a third Airbus A330-200F, which was stored for six months, was added to the fleet.
From Wikipedia’s article on MASkargo, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4