Birth of Air Express International

Air Express International Service becomes a sole proprietor company in Sri Lanka

Air Express Consolidators (PVT) Ltd

Air Express International Service becomes Air Express Consolidators (PVT) Ltd

Expansion overseas

AEC establishes first office in India

Alliance with Hecny

AEC Charters alliance with Hecny Transportation Hong Kong

Corporate expansion in India

AEC establishes more offices in India under Hecny Freight India

Expansion into Bangladesh

Establishment of Hecny Transportation Bangladesh

New management for transhipments

AEC establishes Challenger International Cargo (CIC) Dubai (for all transhipments) and Hecny South West Asia Limited

Expansion into Pakistan

Establishment of Hecny Transportation Pakistan

Indian CHA Certification

AEC obtains Indian Custom House Agency certificate (CHA) for New Delhi Chennai

Birth of HTL Logistics

End of partnership with Hecny; birth of HTL Logistics

National Indian CHA Certification

AEC obtains Indian Custom House Agency Certificate for all of India

Birth of A. E. Logistics

Establishes A. E. Logistics in India to manage a growing inbound market

Expansion into China

HTL establishes first office in China

Expansion into Hong Kong

HTL establishes first office in Hong Kong

Expansion into Spain

HTL establishes first office in Spain

HTL obtains Bangladesh Custom House Agency Certificate for all of Bangladesh

HTL Logistics selects Kale’s Freight Management System

Rolls out of 3PL Centralises Human Resources

HTL rolls out of three-party logistics in Hyderabad, India

HTL introduces the Centralised Human Resource Division based in Bangalore, India

HTL obtains 9001:2008 Quality Management for AEL Colombo Division

HTL establishes first office in Kenya. Plans to further expand operations in the African continent, Madagascar, and the Middle East

MTO licensing KALE FMS roll-out

HTL obtains license as a Multimodal Transport Operator (MTO)

KALE FMS rolls out HTL/AEL BLR, BOM, DEL, MAA, HYD, PUN & BRD offices

A new ERP system

HTL selects Cargowise as the integrated ERP system and implements it in 2012

Expansion into Myanmar

HTL establishes first office in Myanmar

CHA operations were restructured and streamlined and made standalone profit centres

Completed 40 years. 40th year celebrations held in Colombo with extensive participation from our agent partners from all over the world

Obtained membership at Pangea

HTL formulated and started implementing an extensive digital marketing strategy

Agent network website was executed

Initial steps in improving automation in operations were taken.
New website initiated.

Membership with Premier Cargo Alliance

Membership with Apollo Cargo Alliance

Tonnage increase

AEC tonnage in the region 500 tonnes

Tonnage increase

Tonnage tops 3.00 tonnes

Global operations

AEC now operates over 40,700 freighters from Sri Lanka & India to the U.S.A. for the apparel clients

American Airline certified

CIC Dubai obtains GSA for American Airlines

Upscaled freight forwarding

AEC’s inbound and outbound ocean freight exceeds 2000 TEUs and Outbound 1000 TEUs respectively

Tonnage increase

HTL’s Air Freights Tonnage exceeds 20,000 tonnes

Milestone turnover

HTL’s turnover touches $40 million

NVOCC licensed

HTL obtains NVOCC license from the Federal Maritime Commission(FMC) of the U.S.A.

Obtained membership of Global affinity alliance

40th anniversary celebrations

Obtained membership at Pangea