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Oct 02, 2023 (newstodate): September '23 saw a steep rise in cargo volumes handled at Billund Airport.
   A total of 7,075 tonnes of cargo was handled, an increase by 12.5 percent, y-o-y.
   Totals included 5,529 tonnes of exports that were up by 12.6 percent, while imports also increased by 12 percent to 1,536 tonnes.
   The airport is thus moving towards closing the gap against volumes in January-September '22, now reaching 55,003 tonnes in Jan-Sep '23 and trailing only 6.2 percent, y-o-y.
   Still, the airport has ambitions to grow volumes to as high as 160,000 tonnes by 2040 and is planning for construction of a Cargo City aiming at securing Billund a position as a new European cargo hub.
   Today, the airport is pinning its hopes on a continued expansion of Maersk Air Cargo's traffic launched on March 20, 2023, and now totaling six weekly rotations between Billund and Hangzhou in China.
   Since January 3, 2022, the Icelandic cargo carrier Bluebird Nordic is online with flights coming in from Keflavik to Billund, continuing to Bonn/Cologne Airport and returning along the same route in a cooperation with UPS.
   Also online with freighter traffic at Billund Airport is Turkish Airlines Cargo with three weekly operations, and hopes are to see the coming new Faroese airline FarCargo opening flights from Billund to Vagar Airport later this autumn.
   Adding to the cargo traffic at Billund Airport are also integrators DHL, Fedex and UPS.