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Mar 28, 2017 (newstodate): Denmark's Copenhagen Airport is to join the hectic battle for a stake in the e-trade traffic.
A number of European airports are already far advanced in planning and construction of new airfreight and e-trade business facilities, and Copenhagen Airport has now finally come out with its bid for a stake in the prospected growth.
The airport is to target stakeholders in the Danish and foreign biotech and pharma industries as well as the e-trade business to take part in establishing a new Airport Business Park integrated within the airport area, and ambitions are to double the airport's current annual volume of air cargo to 1,000,000 tonnes.
The airport's area now dedicated to air cargo will be increased by 170,000 sq m allocated to the planned Airport Business Park.
Today, about 32 percent of the country's exports leave by air transportation, including primarily hi-value goods such as furs, pharmaceuticals and spares for machinery and engines.
The uplift is primarily provided by the belly-holds on passenger aircraft, and the emphasis by Copenhagen Airport to grow its total cargo volumes is thus focusing on the large, and growing passenger aircraft traffic where cargo is a crucial contributor to over-all profitability on not least longer and inter-continental routes.
In 2016, Copenhagen Airport handled a total of 423,042 tonnes of cargo, freight and mail as well as trucked cargo included.
This was an increase by 13.5 percent, y-o-y, primarily reflecting a strong growth by 60 percent, y-o-y, in exports totaling 107,983 tonnes in 2016.
Much of the cargo exports through Copenhagen Airport is, however, trucked into the airport from other Scandinavian markets, not least Norway that is itself in the process of increasing its cargo uplift significantly with freighter traffic from Oslo Airport.
This trend will probably manifest itself already in the 2017 statistics from Copenhagen Airport.
A number of European airports are already far advanced in planning and construction of new airfreight and e-trade business facilities, and Copenhagen Airport has now finally come out with its bid for a stake in the prospected growth.
The airport is to target stakeholders in the Danish and foreign biotech and pharma industries as well as the e-trade business to take part in establishing a new Airport Business Park integrated within the airport area, and ambitions are to double the airport's current annual volume of air cargo to 1,000,000 tonnes.
The airport's area now dedicated to air cargo will be increased by 170,000 sq m allocated to the planned Airport Business Park.
Today, about 32 percent of the country's exports leave by air transportation, including primarily hi-value goods such as furs, pharmaceuticals and spares for machinery and engines.
The uplift is primarily provided by the belly-holds on passenger aircraft, and the emphasis by Copenhagen Airport to grow its total cargo volumes is thus focusing on the large, and growing passenger aircraft traffic where cargo is a crucial contributor to over-all profitability on not least longer and inter-continental routes.
In 2016, Copenhagen Airport handled a total of 423,042 tonnes of cargo, freight and mail as well as trucked cargo included.
This was an increase by 13.5 percent, y-o-y, primarily reflecting a strong growth by 60 percent, y-o-y, in exports totaling 107,983 tonnes in 2016.
Much of the cargo exports through Copenhagen Airport is, however, trucked into the airport from other Scandinavian markets, not least Norway that is itself in the process of increasing its cargo uplift significantly with freighter traffic from Oslo Airport.
This trend will probably manifest itself already in the 2017 statistics from Copenhagen Airport.