[Paleo Conservative]

So these planes are being developed just to assemble the 787 not to compete with Airbus?

I'm sure if some other company needed a large freighter, Boeing would be willing to manufacture more of them. This is just a conversion of the standard 747-400 passenger aircraft of which more than 500 have been built.

[connectthedots]

I think Boeing ceased production of the 747 family aircraft a few years ago.