Yangtze River Airlines (Shanghai Hongqiao) has signed an agreement with Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings concerning the wet-lease of a single B747-400(F) due to enter service later this month.

According to a press release, the freighter will be operated by Atlas Air (5Y, New York JFK) and will be deployed on flights between China and the United States.

A unit of HNA Group, Yangtze River Airlines operates twelve B737-300(F)s, two B737-300(QC)s, three B737-400(F)s, and three B747-400(BDSF)s on scheduled cargo flights throughout China as welll as to Germany, Belgium, the United States, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Taiwan, Russia, South Korea, and Japan.