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gains.During the peak periods, we have no more available slots for take-offs and landings, so that many connections requested by airlines cannot be implemented,” Switzerland’s busiest air cargo
gateway is Zurich International airport. It handled 415,035 tonnes of freight in 2011 – comprising 285,942 tonnes of flown air freight, with 129,093 tonnes of trucked throughput. It also flew 32,936 tons of mail. These figures represented a 1 percent year-on-year increase in freight traffic and a 17.3 percent increase in mail volumes. As the home hub of Swiss
WorldCargo, the air freight wing of Swiss International Air Lines, the airport is certain to benefit from the addition of a new five times a week A340-300 service by the Swiss carrier to Beijing, which it inaugurated on 13 February. In the centre of England East
Midlands airport is something of a sleeping giant, it seems. Much less well known than some other UK gateways, it handles considerable amounts of freight each year. Plus, East Midlands has continued to
grow. Brad Miller, managing director of the gateway, comments: “Despite the current economic climate, we remain committed to investing in the development of the airport… Creating a vibrant hub and an environment in which business can flourish by taking advantage of the connectivity offered by the airport is a key focus for us.”
Final four London’s second-biggest air freight portal is Stansted, home to British Airways World Cargo’s new B747-8 freighters and a good deal of integrator traffic. It handled a total of 203,830 tonnes of freight last year, ACI revealed, up by 0.5 percent on its 2010 result. The volume of cargo – including
trucking – moving through Vienna International airport declined last year by 6.2 percent to 277,784 tonnes, while air cargo traffic fell year-on-year by 8.9 percent to 199,810 tonnes. The airport operator has set its sights on cost reduction and improving efficiencies moving forward, while the amalgamation of Austrian Airlines
Cargo and Lufthansa Cargo into the one freight carrier will obviously have an ongoing effect on the gateway’s throughput. Moscow Domodedovo beat its rival
Moscow Sheremetyevo gateway in the race to be the Russian capital’s number one cargo airport in 2011. According to ACI statistics, Domodedovo handled 165,791 tons of freight in 2011, a hefty 17.7 percent increase over 2010. Finally, in the number 20 spot,
Finland’s Helsinki International airport processed 155,998 tonnes of air freight last year, up by 7.7 percent on its 2010 performance and leapfrogging it above Rome Fiumicino International airport.
Miller
“Creating a vibrant hub and an environ‐ ment in which business can flourish ... is a key focus for us”
ALM
Gateway
Europe’s busiest cargo airports 2011 Traffic (tonnes) % change on 2010
Paris Charles de Gaulle Frankfurt-Main
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol London Heathrow Leipzig/Halle Cologne-Bonn Liège
Luxembourg Findel Istanbul
Milan-Malpensa Brussels
Madrid-Barajas Frankfurt-Hahn Munich Zurich
East Midlands
London Stansted Vienna
Moscow Domodedovo Helsinki
2,300,064* 2,133,300 1,523,806 1,484,487 743,980 726,250 674,360 656,653 498,047 440,258 418,898 393,431
286,416** 286,201 285,942 266,498 203,830 199,810 165,791 155,998
na
-3.0 0.8 0.8
16.5 12.8 5.4
-6.9 10.0 4.2
-2.6 5.4
25.0 4.2 3.7
-3.1 0.5
-8.9 17.7 7.7
* Unconfirmed. Paris CdG is yet to release its freight throughput figures for 2011. ** According to Frankfurt-Hahn’s own figures, it handled 286,416 tonnes of air cargo last year. It is not listed in the ACI figures because it is not an ACI member.
The ACI figures cover flown freight arriving or departing at airports. Freight comprises goods, newspapers, parcel post and express freight. Trucked freight has not been included.
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