european airports Frankfurt’s runways viewed over the Cargo City Sud facility
cargo business to share the ample space on its exhibition stand. This freight-friendly airport makes the best of its geographical
location. Regarded as being in Western Europe, the airport is actually located further east than some of the surrounding Eastern European gateways with which it competes for air freight loads. This makes it an ideal gateway for connecting air freight loads moving in either direction between China and the high- tech manufacturing countries of Eastern Europe. Elsewhere in Austria, Dieter Pammer, sales marketing
manager in the cargo department at Blue Danube Linz airport, says that the country’s biggest regional air freight gateway is all set for a “colourful” future. Linz recently received the green light to undertake 24-hour cargo operations and Pammer is letting both existing and potential customers know of the opportunities now on offer. “It’s a very interesting development for the market.” Linz continues to handle some big charters –in the past, it has
seen aircraft as massive as the 250-tonne payload AN-225 on its runway. And now Volga-Dnepr is regularly flying IL-76s on charters for broker Chapman Freeborn – transporting car parts between Monastir in Tunisia and Linz.
GERMANY Situated at the centre of Europe’s largest air freight-generating country, Lufthansa is building a new 5,000m2
hub at its Frankfurt-Main International airport hub to improve capability in one of its most important market segments. The new facility, which is expected to be ready by the end of the year, will be close to the existing perishables centre and will offer a dedicated warehouse area for pharmaceuticals. A spokesman for the German flag-
carrier noted: “We expect strong growth in the pharma segment, especially in India and China.” India, in fact, has become the biggest market for generic medicines and it is no coincidence that Lufthansa’s other dedicated ‘pharma’ facility is under construction in the country’s manufacturing centre of Hyderabad. Leipzig/Halle International airport
is Germany’s fastest-growing air cargo gateway, handling a total of 663,000 tonnes of cargo during 2010.
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Between January and April this year 240,000 tonnes of freight passed through the airport, representing an increase of 22 percent compared to the same period of the previous year. “I am optimistic that we will be able to set a new handling record this year with a cargo throughput of at least 700,000 tonnes,” said Markus Kopp, CEO of Mitteldeutsche Airport Holding, operator of the German gateway. “This would definitely help us to further consolidate our position as the second-largest air cargo handling site in Germany.” Looking at the reasons for the
Kopp highlights Leipzig/Halle as “the second-largest air cargo handling site in Germany”
success being seen at Leipzig/Halle, Kopp continued: “Today, it is no longer sufficient to simply provide customers with just the appropriate infrastructure. We offer a variety of value-added services through our subsidiary PortGround, such as pre-order picking in textile logistics or PortGround’s very own trucking network and door-to-door delivery service.”
FRANCE French airport operator Aéroports de Paris (AdP) is seeing steady growth so far this year in its cargo business. According to Anne Frisch, AdP freight and mail traffic through Charles de Gaulle airport totalled 574,016 tonnes during the first quarter, up by 3.8 percent year-on-year. Comparing Paris with competing European air freight
pharmaceutical
markets, she noted: “The presence of the Air France-KLM Cargo, FedEx and La Poste triple hub here allows us to offer a choice of connections that is unique in Europe” and a dense network of road feeder services and the ongoing Carex high-speed rail freight project can add far-reaching intermodal connections to the airport’s capabilities. Elsewhere in France: “The cargo situation at Marseille
Provence airport continues to be dynamic,” says Christine Pierret, deputy managing director at MAP Handling. Tonnage is buoyant at the airport and projects continue to flourish. The express operators bring in the highest volumes every night on a current total of 18 freighter operations by carriers such as DHL, UPS, FedEx and TNT. Furthermore, she informed: “The
management of the airport adapts well to new demands from clients, and new routes to North Africa that had been planned for several months are coming to fruition.” Pierret concluded by emphasising
Apron activity at Marseille-Provence
the collaboration of the whole air freight community at Marseille as being instrumental in creating the “tailor-made” services that make the airport “a partner of choice” for cargo- carrying airlines.
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