european airports Amsterdam and


Incheon sign up to e-Freight deal


Two of the world’s busiest air freight gateways – Seoul Incheon International airport and Europe’s Amsterdam Airport Schiphol – have joined forces to co-operate on e-Freight business between them. The deal they have signed provides for the


exchange of knowledge and expertise on the subject of electronic freight and paves the way for research and development projects that would stimulate e-Freight procedures between the two air cargo hubs. The agreement was signed at the International Air


Transport Association (IATA) World Cargo Symposium in Istanbul in March by Young-Geun Lee, executive vice president at Incheon, and Enno Osinga, senior vice president cargo at Schiphol. Lee commented: “By introducing the efficiency of e-Freight


cargo business has developed so successfully at Vienna.” He believes that the airport is “well equipped” with its 19,000m2


between these two major hubs, we are also expecting an increase in cargo volumes.” This collaborative spirit is catching on, with Aéroports de


Paris – whose main Paris Charles de Gaulle gateway also had a record year in 2010 – thinking along the same lines. “The aim is to sign agreements with other airports, as


Amsterdam has done,” confirmed David Kem, responsible for freight operations and marketing at the airport operator.


Air


Cargo Center positioned at the heart of its air freight business. The centre has a special storage area for perishables,


dangerous goods and vulnerable goods as well as veterinary services for live animals, and a road feeder service/trucking area. “Vienna International airport offers, with state-of-the-art


technology and specialised knowledge, the ideal cargo transhipment point for the CEE economic region. It has an extensive network of cargo routes to Western and Eastern Europe and there are daily truck connections to over 20 cities in the region,” Kleeman noted. With its good geographical


Zöchbauer: “the Far Eastern sector ... is still reasonably good”


location, Vienna has the benefit of short distances by road to a number of cities in Eastern Europe. “The short delivery and acceptance times make cargo transfer at Vienna airport, to and from CEE countries, very popular,” Kleemann said. The home-based carrier at the


airport is Austrian Cargo, where Franz Zöchbauer, head of Austrian Lufthansa Cargo, said: “The Far East sector on Austrian Cargo flights is still


reasonably good,” and he expects to see “stable growth in Austria’s economy and exports” continuing into the future.


22 AIR LOGISTICSCHINA


THE UK’S EAGER DAYTIME GATEWAY In the UK, East Midlands airport is keen to build up its daytime freighter business. Ironically, it has grown into a busy night-time gateway due to the number of large integrators and the country’s Royal Mail service that operate through East Midlands in the vital overnight hours that they need to provide next-day services worldwide. This has left East Midlands with facilities that are under-utilised during the day – and “we want to attract more daytime traffic”, says the airport’s director of planning and development, John Froggatt. East Midlands has seen some


success in attracting daytime ad hoc charters, he said. Regular scheduled freighters have been a tougher nut to crack, despite the gateway’s excellent geographical location; a recent survey showed that 90 percent of England and Wales was within a four-hour truck drive. London’s continued appeal to the air freight community is in


Froggatt: “we want to attract more daytime traffic”


fact something of a mystery, given that there is these days so little industry south of the Midlands, Froggatt considers “London may have a historic appeal, and it still seems to have


a gravitational pull on the air freight industry, but the freighter market is something we are very keen to get into,” he explained.


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