FEATURE CARGO AIRPORTS USA
Top 20 US cargo gateways
ACI ranking 2010 1 Memphis 2 Anchorage 3 Louisville 4 Miami
5 Los Angeles 6 Chicago
tonnage change
3,916,937 5.9 2,578,396 33.1 2,166,226 11.1 1,835,793 17.9 1,810,345 15.5 1,424,077 30
7 New York JFK 1,343,114 17.4 8 Indianapolis
9 Newark Liberty 10 Atlanta
947,279 5.2 854,750 9.6 659,279 17
11 Dallas/Fort Worth 650,584 10.9 12 Oakland
13 San Francisco 14 Houston
15 Philadelphia 16 Cincinnati
520,823 2.8 432,235 5.9 426,875 14 419,659 (3.2) 377,032 171.6
17 Washington Dulles 332,274 13.5 18 Seattle
19 Boston Logan 20 Toledo
283,967 4.6 259,539 4.7 254,802 5.5
Philadelphia International airport was the only gateway to see its cargo tonnage fall in 2010, with a 3.2 percent drop registered year-on-year
But Chicago Department of Aviation commissioner Rosemarie S Andolino nonetheless noted: “O’Hare is the global gateway to our city and is a leader for air cargo. As new runways and taxiways continue to be built under the O’Hare Modernization Program, O’Hare has the capacity and infrastructure needed to support the expanding global cargo industry.”
The Port Authority of
New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) operates seventh-placed New York John F Kennedy International airport, under a lease with the City of New York, along with the Newark Liberty, LaGuardia and Stewart International gateways.
The economic impact of the 4,930-acre air gateway on the region is reflected in the fact that JFK alone contributes about $31 billion in economic activity to the New York/New Jersey region, generating some 233,000 jobs and about $11.3 billion in wages and salaries.
60 AIR LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT
Rosemarie S Andolino
global gateway to our city”
With nine miles of runways, the airport is one of the world’s leading international air cargo centres, with two main facilities totalling 430,000 square feet of warehouse and office space. The airport has more than one million square feet of office and warehouse space dedicated to broker, freight forwarder and container freight station operators who do business within the New York/New Jersey region. For the 12-month period to 31 October 2011, JFK processed nearly 1.4 million tons of cargo – a 1 percent year-on-year increase – and 99,049 tons of air mail.
Standing in the shadow Christofer Matney, air services director at eighth-placed Indianapolis International airport, comments: “We are the second-largest airport in the FedEx network and handle over 1 million tons of cargo a year. We are the eighth-busiest freight airport in North America, yet we are always in the shadow of Chicago O’Hare with a
“O’Hare is the
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