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Sep 14, 2021 (newstodate): Copenhagen Airport reports an increase by a hefty 88 percent, y-o-y, in its total volumes of cargo in the first eight months of this year of corona-recovery.
   In January-August 2021, the airport thus handled a total of 178,800 tonnes of cargo - legacy carriers and integrators included - against only 95,151 tonnes in 2020, marked by the Covid-19 break-down in the industry.
   Seen against the pre-Covid period, volumes are actually now only 0.3 percent below those of January-August 2019, boding well for a full recovery by the end of this year.
   As a North European hub, the airport is however dependent on the volume of passenger traffic in aircraft providing cargo belly capacity; here, volumes in Jan-Aug 2021 were 60,915 tonnes, up 36 percent, y-o-y, but still 27 percent below volumes in 2019.
   The airport's all-cargo and freighter volumes were almost negligible in Jan-Aug 2021 - a mere 362 tonnes against 49,438 tonnes in 2019, thus only 0.7 percent compared to 2019.
   The airport is however strong in integrator cargo, where DHL and FedEx together handled 56,886 tonnes of cargo - an increase by 21 percent over Jan-Aug 2020, and even 15 percent more than in 2019.
   So far into 2021, integrator volumes thus accrue to 32 percent of the airport's total volumes; in the same abnormal period in 2020 the percentage run as high 49 percent, while in 2019 the proportion was 28 percent.