FEATURE CARGO AIRPORTS EUROPE
country’s primary industrial regions. Italian freighter operators come and
Kerkloh
“We have no more available slots for take‐ offs and landings”
go, with the latest casualty being Cargoitalia, but the end of 2011 also saw European freight carrier Cargolux begin operating its new B747-8 freighters into the gateway. The airline is flying on to São Paulo in Brazil from Milan. Brussels airport processed just slightly
“As an airport authority, we want to make sure that all cargo can be transported ... in the most convenient way possible”
Steve Polmans
less freight last year than it did in 2010. The Brussels Airport Company said this was a performance that compared very favourably to many other European gateways over the course of 2011. The second half of the year proved
better than the first, with year-on-year improvements in throughput witnessed from October onward. Moreover, the airport continues to expand and upgrade its Brucargo dedicated freight handling area. Steven Polmans, manager cargo marketing at the gateway, remarked: “As an airport authority, we want to make sure that all cargo can be transported via Brussels in the most convenient way possible.” This year the airport is planning to
invest a total of 20 million euros (US$26.1 million) in Brucargo to strengthen the gateway’s position as a primary facility for the shipment of pharmaceuticals. Spain’s main air freight portal at
Madrid-Barajas International airport had a relatively successful 2011, at least in terms of its freight business. The largest of the gateways operated by AENA Aeropuertos enjoyed a more than 5 percent year-on-year increase in its cargo traffic, despite the sufferings of its national economy.
Spanish flag-carrier Iberia, which is
now part of the new IAG entity with merger partner British Airways, is building a new 100 million euro ($132 million) cargo terminal at Madrid- Barajas. When operational in 2015, the new hub will make the airport Europe’s largest terminal for air cargo to and from South America.
More cargo hub increases Frankfurt-Hahn airport was yet another German gateway to achieve a new annual throughput record for freight last year, processing – according to its own figures – 286,416 tonnes of air freight. This figure – 25 percent up on 2010 – included both cargo leaving and destined for the Frankfurt region, as well as freight in transit. At 222,836 tonnes, transit cargo leaped 33 percent on 2010. If road freight is included in Hahn’s
traffic statistics, then it processed 565,344 tonnes, an increase of 21 percent on the previous year. On announcing Hahn’s traffic results,
the managing director of the gateway, Wolfgang Pollety, enthused: “In cargo, we’ve had the highest result in the history of the airport.” Bavaria’s Munich Airport International
was another German airport that beat its own record for cargo throughput in a calendar year. It processed a total of 286,000 tonnes of freight over the course of 2011, well up on its performance in 2010. CEO Michael Kerkloh lamented:
“Without the steadily worsening bottlenecks in our runway system, we would have achieved even stronger
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